HOMEMADE Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

homemade

adjective

Definition of homemade

as in manual

made in the home and not in a factory, store, etc. He makes a fantastic homemade bread.

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Recent Examples of homemade Ladybird Taco started with a breakfast craving, a homemade tortilla and a chance encounter that changed everything. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026 Breshears said the catalog includes homemade beeswax candles and honey sourced from local beekeepers. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026 Marlee Crave served a summer dish at Fiddlehead Kitchen made from her husband's tomatoes and greens, her homemade sourdough bread and her family's cheese. — Derek James, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 For nearly a decade, the shop has been selling homemade Sonoran-style flour tortillas, stone-ground corn tortillas and other Mexican pantry staples to customers in Kansas City and beyond. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for homemade

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Adjective

The robot identified the causes of its own failures, modified its approach and stored the resulting knowledge without requiring human demonstrations or additional manual tuning.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
If Broadridge can perform the same work with less manual intervention, AI reduces the cost of providing some services.

— Isabella Gao, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026

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But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
In a recent survey of the state of twee music, Mason Mann, a member of Josephine’s Next Million Miles—a newer act that owes a lot to the homespun indie pop of the ’80s and ’90s—surmised that the core of the genre was not joy, but pain.

— Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026

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