self-sufficient Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite able to provide for your own needs without help from others
self-sustaining; self-sufficing.
- a self-sufficing economic unit
WordNet
Self`-suf*fi"cient adjective
Definitions
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Sufficient for one's self without external aid or coöperation. 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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Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing. "A rash and self-sufficient manner." I. Watts.