self-sufficient

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Able to provide for oneself independently of others; not needing external support.
    — Over the next few decades, several million humans immigrated to Eden Prime and a primarily agrarian culture developed. The new colony quickly became not only self-sufficient, but began exporting goods.
  2. Overconfident in one's own abilities; arrogant. obsolete
    — In spite of these conscientious reflections, he was too self-sufficient to think he should find any difficulty in obtaining forgiveness for these sins of omission […].

词形变化

more self-sufficient comparative most self-sufficient superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
self-sufficiently
相关词
self-sufficiency

词源

From self- + sufficient, a calque of Ancient Greek αὐτάρκης (autárkēs).
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