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self-acclaimed

self-acclaimed is the misconstruction of self-proclaimed.

Meaning of self-proclaimed

Adjective

self-proclaimed (not comparable)

  1. Announced by oneself, usually without recognition by others.
    • He was self-proclaimed king of the mountain. Since it was a mountain of garbage, nobody else wanted the title anyway.

Questions about self-acclaimed

What is self-acclaimed the misconstruction of?
Self-acclaimed is the misconstruction of self-proclaimed.

Words near self-acclaimed in the dictionary

  1. self-abusers
  2. self-abuses
  3. self-abusing
  4. self-acceptance
  5. self-access
  6. self-acclaimed
  7. self-accompanied
  8. self-acknowledgedly
  9. self-acting
  10. self-action
  11. self-activity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-acclaimed (page history and authors); self-proclaimed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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