self-made

Speech parts

1. self-made - Adjective

2. self-made - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Made by one's self.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

independent successful handicraft going flourishing homemade audacious self-reliant homebrew self-educated autodidact self-sufficient handmade self-taught self-sufficing
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Antonyms

unsuccessful inert idle indifferent hopeless careless
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Examples

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name. Learned Hand

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Joseph Heller

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth. Che Guevara

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. Richard Francis Burton

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. E. B. White

Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude! Javad Alizadeh

Close letter words and terms

self-lubrication self-luminescent self-luminous self-made man self-made wealth self-mailer