store-bought

Thân thiện

The baker uses store-bought jam for the pastries.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Purchased from a store; not homemade or made from scratch: Describes an item, typically food or goods, that has been bought ready-made from a retail establishment rather than being produced at home.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • For the party, she served store-bought cookies instead of baking her own.
  • He prefers the taste of homemade jam, but store-bought is more convenient.
  • The costume was mostly handmade, but she used a store-bought mask.

Advanced Usage

• Implication of Convenience vs. Quality: The term often carries an implied comparison, suggesting that while a "store-bought" item is convenient, it may lack the perceived quality, authenticity, or care of a homemade equivalent.
  • The judge in the baking contest could instantly tell which pie was store-bought.

Variants and Related Words

• Boughten (adj., regional/informal): An older or dialectal synonym for "store-bought," meaning purchased from a store.
  • She wore a boughten dress to the dance.

Synonyms

• Commercial: Produced for sale to the public.
• Ready-made: Made in advance for purchase, not to order.
• Pre-packaged: Packaged before being offered for sale.

Antonyms

• Homemade: Made at home, not commercially.
• Handmade: Made by hand, not by machine.
• Artisanal: Made in a traditional or non-mechanized way by a skilled craftsperson.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. purchased; not homemade
   • my boughten clothes
   • a store-bought dress

Từ đồng nghĩa

• boughten