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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

self-sufficient adj 1: able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit" [syn: self- sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustaining]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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