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View synonyms for self-explanatory

self-explanatory

[ self-ik-splan-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, self- ]

adjective

  1. explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.


self-explanatory

adjective

  1. understandable without explanation; self-evident
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-explanatory1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

One of the more recent ones, for example, is titled “God Hates Malaysia,” and is pretty self-explanatory.

Second - (This was a reaction to the parsing of the word "heckling") And this - well that one is self-explanatory.

Among her self-explanatory titles: Her First Lesbian Sex 14, T and A Buffet, and Barefoot Confidential 44.

The second device, of which we also give an example, is self-explanatory, and is perhaps the more original.

A similar structure, formed with seven glasses and a carafe, is shown in Fig. 22, which is self-explanatory.

I think that Cadigan Exhibits Nos. 16, 17, and 18 are self-explanatory.

The name thus conferred is a self-explanatory and exclusive title of distinction and authority.

Apropos to the foregoing facts are the following communications which are self-explanatory.

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