self-educated

Speech parts

1. self-educated - Adjective

2. self-educated - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

advanced academic learned educational primitive literate naive lettered well-read erudite applied knowledgeable self-made autodidact educated
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Antonyms

trained ignorant illiterate stupid lettered unlearned
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self-education

Examples

Any 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

Close letter words and terms

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