'Self-sufficient' definitions:
Definition of 'self-sufficient'
From: WordNet
adjective
Able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit" [syn: self- sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustaining]
Definition of 'Self-sufficient'
From: GCIDE
- Self-sufficient \Self`-suf*fi"cient\, a.
- 1. Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation. [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. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing. "A rash and self-sufficient manner." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'self-sufficient'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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