self-sufficient
Speech parts
1. self-sufficient - Adjective
2. self-sufficient - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation.
Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing.
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self sufficient
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Examples
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.