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self-descriptive

self-descriptive adjective: serving to describe oneself, being or providing a description of oneself.

Adjective

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

  1. Serving to describe oneself, being or providing a description of oneself.

Forms of self-descriptive

comparativemore self-descriptive
superlativemost self-descriptive

Origin of self-descriptive

From self- + descriptive.

Questions about self-descriptive

What does self-descriptive mean?
Self-descriptive means serving to describe oneself, being or providing a description of oneself.
What part of speech is self-descriptive?
Self-descriptive is an adjective.

Words near self-descriptive in the dictionary

  1. self-depreciation
  2. self-deprivation
  3. self-deprivations
  4. self-described
  5. self-describing
  6. self-descriptive
  7. self-deserting
  8. self-deserting avoidant
  9. self-despair
  10. self-destroyer
  11. self-destroyers

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