self-reliant

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ reliant.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

self-reliant (comparative more self-reliant, superlative most self-reliant)

1. Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

   Synonym: self-sufficient

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Bite the Bullet”, in The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 438:

     The Constitution deliberately makes the President and the Congress competitors as well as partners. The Founding Fathers created an elaborate system of checks and balances to keep each partner self-reliant while still assuring their interdependence. No brief account can fully capture the complexity of this relationship, in which each partner contributes his own share of stubbornness, pride, hostility, warmth, suspicion, skill, and affection.

Related terms

• self-reliance

Translations

reliant upon oneself

• Catalan: autosuficient
• Dutch: zelfredzaam (nl)
• Finnish: itseluottavainen
• French: sûr de lui, débrouillard (fr)
• Galician: autosuficiente
• German: sich selbst vertrauend, auf sich selbst vertrauend, auf sich selbst verlassend, eigenständig (de)
• Hungarian: önálló (hu)
• Italian: autonomo (it), autosufficiente (it)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: niezależny (pl)
• Portuguese: autossuficiente (pt)
• Russian: уве́ренный в себе́ (uvérennyj v sebé), уве́ренный в свои́х си́лах (uvérennyj v svoíx sílax)
• Slovak: samostatný
• Slovene: samostojen
• Spanish: autosuficiente (es)

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