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Webster 1913 Edition


Self-sufficient

Selfˊ-suf-fi′cient

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Adj.
1.
Sufficient for one’s self without external aid or cooperation.
Neglect of friends can never be proved rational till we prove the person using it omnipotent and
self-sufficient
, and such as can never need any mortal assistance.
South.
2.
Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing.
“A rash and self-sufficient manner.”
I. Watts.

Webster 1828 Edition


Self-sufficient

SELF-SUFFI''CIENT

,
Adj.
Having full confidence in one's own strength, abilities or endowments; whence, haughty; overbearing.

Definition 2024


self-sufficient

self-sufficient

English

Adjective

self-sufficient (comparative more self-sufficient, superlative most self-sufficient)

  1. Able to provide for oneself independently of others.
  2. (of a person) Too confident.

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