Self-sufficient

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Self-sufficient \Self`-suf*fi"cient\, a.
     1. Sufficient for one's self without external aid or
        cooperation.
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              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.
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     2. Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or
        worth; hence, haughty; overbearing. "A rash and
        self-sufficient manner." --I. Watts.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  self-sufficient
       adj : able to provide for your own needs without help from others;
             "a self-sufficing economic unit" [syn: {self-sufficing},
              {self-sustaining}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-sufficient":
     acquisitive, ambitious for self, autarchic, autarkic, autistic,
     autonomous, bashful, careerist, close, closed, complacent,
     consequential, dissociable, egotistical, erect, free-spirited,
     freewheeling, grasping, greedy, house-proud, incompatible,
     independent, individual, individualistic, inner-directed,
     insociable, mopey, mopish, morose, narcissan, narcissine,
     narcissistic, narcistic, neutral, nonaligned, nongregarious,
     nonpartisan, one-man, overproud, overweening, personalistic,
     possessive, prideful, privatistic, proud, proud as Lucifer,
     proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited,
     proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, remote, self-absorbed,
     self-admiring, self-advancing, self-approving, self-assuming,
     self-besot, self-centered, self-complacent, self-confident,
     self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-considerative,
     self-contained, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting,
     self-dependent, self-determined, self-devoted, self-directing,
     self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-governed, self-governing,
     self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-indulgent,
     self-interested, self-jealous, self-loving, self-occupied,
     self-pleasing, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied,
     self-seeking, self-serving, self-subsistent, self-supporting,
     self-sustained, self-sustaining, selfish, smug, snug,
     socially incompatible, sovereign, stiff-necked, sullen,
     third-force, third-world, unclubbable, uncommunicative,
     uncompanionable, uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unit,
     unsociable, unsocial, vain, vainglorious