self-taught

Adjective

Meaning

Taught by one's own efforts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

self taught

Synonyms

natural savant learned amateur inexperienced amateurish unskilled knowledgeable self-made bookish unskillful self-educated autodidact dilettante inexpert

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Antonyms

savant stupid dumb idiotic imbecile uneducated

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Examples

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. Henny Youngman

A self-taught painter is one taught by a very ignorant person. John Constable

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. Diogenes of Sinope

Many people who excel are self-taught. Herb Ritts

I'm completely self-taught on guitar- limited me in some ways but very helpful in others. My only goal to playing was to write songs. Chris Cornell

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities. Ludwig von Mises

Close letter words and terms

self-synchronizing self-tapping self-tapping screw self-taught art self-taught artist self-taught person