1. self-educated - Adjective
2. self-educated - Adjective Satellite
Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAny drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. Dean Koontz
I am self-educated from genre books. Charlaine Harris
W. L. Mackenzie (Canada West/Ontario Leader of 1837 Rebellion) – "He is every whit a self-made, self-educated man. Has large mental capacity and indomitable energy.”. Alexander Mackenzie
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Isaac D'Israeli
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant. John Banville
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell. Peter Ackroyd