Word Study
self-sufficient
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-sufficient, a.
- Sufficient for one's self without external aid or coöperation. [1913 Webster]"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." [1913 Webster]
- Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing. I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-sufficient, adj.
1 a needing nothing; independent. b (of a person, nation, etc.) able to supply one's needs for a commodity, esp. food, from one's own resources.
2 content with one's own opinion; arrogant.
1 a needing nothing; independent. b (of a person, nation, etc.) able to supply one's needs for a commodity, esp. food, from one's own resources.
2 content with one's own opinion; arrogant.
Derivative
self-sufficiency n. self-sufficiently adv. self-sufficing adj.
THESAURUS
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, vaingloriousROGET THESAURUS
self-sufficient
Vanity
N vanity, conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, self- complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration, amour propre, selfishness, airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism, egotism, priggism, priggishness, coxcombry, gaudery, vainglory, elation, pride, ostentation, assurance, vox et praeterea nihil, cheval de bataille, coxcomb, Sir Oracle, vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock, conceited, overweening, pert, forward, vainglorious, high-flown, ostentatious, puffed up, inflated, flushed, self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated, entente, wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish, egotistic, egotistical, soi-disant, arrogant, unabashed, unblushing, unconstrained, unceremonious, free and easy, vainly, how we apples swim!, prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.For further exploring for "self-sufficient" in Webster Dictionary Online