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self-sufficient

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Adjective
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self-suf=fi=cient

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-sufficienta. 
  •  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.

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, vainglorious

ROGET 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.


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