homemade

From home +‎ made.

homemade (comparative more homemade, superlative most homemade)

1. Made at home.

   Antonyms: shop-bought, store-bought

   Hyponyms: homespun, homebuilt

   Coordinate terms: semi-homemade; (often antonymous) ready-made, premade, prefabricated; (often hyponymous) scratch-made, scratch-built

   a homemade chicken casserole

   • 2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎^[1], page G7:

     [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.

2. Made by oneself.

   Synonym: self-made

   Near-synonyms: homebrew, handmade

   a homemade bomb

3. In a simple style as if made at home.

   Near-synonym: homespun

   a homemade aphorism

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