self-sufficient
adjective
Origin of self-sufficient
Related Words for self-sufficient
efficient, competent, confident, self-supporting, self-sustaining, arrogant, closed, conceited, egotistic, haughty, independent, individual, self-confident, smug, unit, self-dependentExamples from the Web for self-sufficient
Contemporary Examples of self-sufficient
Following troop drawdown, our goal is to create a self-sufficient Afghanistan, and one that views women as a vital contributors.
And Counihan said the system was designed to be as simple and self-sufficient as possible.
Sheriff Wheeler described the compound as a self-sufficient community with its own food supply.
We were driven, self-sufficient, results-oriented, and professionally demanding.
When you take any beginning industry, you do want to subsidize it until it's self-sufficient.
Historical Examples of self-sufficient
Even his ways of sitting and standing provoke me, they are so self-sufficient.
Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
They were so free, so untrammelled and self-sufficient; yes, and so barbarous, too.
Hidden WaterDane Coolidge
A structure as huge and complex as this had to be self-sufficient.
The Status CivilizationRobert Sheckley
He looked pretty much like a self-sufficient, self-contained adult.
Ten From InfinityPaul W. Fairman