self-contained
Origin of self-contained
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self-governing, autonomous, self-sufficient, self-supporting, absolute, autarchic, individualistic, nonaligned, nonpartisan, self-reliant, separate, separated, sovereign, unconnected, unconstrained, uncontrolled, freewheeling, unaidedExamples from the Web for self-contained
Contemporary Examples of self-contained
They can do this because they believe they operate in self-contained worlds unto themselves.
The three episodes will be a self-contained arc ending at Prom Night and will serve as a prologue for the rest of the series.
At its peak The Farm had 1,500 members; it was a self-contained world with its own school, farm, midwives and social tenets.
The acting exists in a self-contained bubble of Phoenix yelling at Hoffman and Hoffman yelling at Phoenix, and more yelling.
A Debate About Paul Thomas Anderson’s Movie ‘The Master’Ramin Setoodeh, Marlow Stern
September 14, 2012
Each of Baker's paragraphs also seem to exist in a self-contained platform.
Historical Examples of self-contained
Yet we have just seen that the Greeks of old were too self-contained for their Italian brethren.
The Dramatic Values in PlautusWilton Wallace Blancke
Each village community was self-contained, and had its own officers.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
To him the subject-matter 23 of the science is self-contained.
The Child and the CurriculumJohn Dewey
His gloomy eye smouldered as it considered the self-contained buccaneer.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
And he was cool, too; cool and self-contained; fearless and purposeful.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini