Word.ws English Dictionary

self-educate

self-educate verb: to learn or study without the direction of a teacher.

Verb

self-educate (third-person singular simple present self-educates, present participle self-educating, simple past and past participle self-educated)

  1. (intransitive) To learn or study without the direction of a teacher.

Forms of self-educate

third-person singular presentself-educates
present participleself-educating
past participleself-educated
pastself-educated

Origin of self-educate

From self- + educate.

Words formed from self-educate

Questions about self-educate

What does self-educate mean?
Self-educate means to learn or study without the direction of a teacher.
What part of speech is self-educate?
Self-educate is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-educate?
The past tense of self-educate is self-educated.

Words near self-educate in the dictionary

  1. self-duality
  2. self-edit
  3. self-edited
  4. self-editing
  5. self-edits
  6. self-educate
  7. self-educated
  8. self-educates
  9. self-educating
  10. self-education
  11. self-educations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-educate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “self-educate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/self-educate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.