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self-explanatory

self-explanatory adjective: obvious, having a nature that makes it clear or that explains itself.

Adjective

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

  1. Obvious, having a nature that makes it clear or that explains itself.

self-explanatory meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

self-explanatory in Tamil

தன்விளக்கம், வெளிப்படை, தானே விளக்குந்தன்மையுள்ள

self-explanatory in Malayalam

intelligible, comprehensible, easily understood
സ്വതഃസ്പ്ഷടമായ, വേഗം മനസ്സിലാകുന്ന, കൂടുതൽ വിശദീകരണം ആവശ്യമില്ലാത്ത, സ്വയം വിശദീകരിക്കുന്ന, സ്വയം വ്യാഖ്യാനിക്കുന്ന, സ്പഷ്ടമായ

self-explanatory in Kannada

ಸ್ವಯಂವೇದ್ಯ, ಸ್ವಯಂಸ್ಪಷ್ಟ, ಸ್ವವಿವರಣಾತ್ಮಕ

self-explanatory in Arabic

explaining itself
مُفَسِّر نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ mufassir nafsahu binafsihi, مَفْهُوم بِذَاتِهِ mafhūm biḏātihi, لَا يَتَطَلَّبُ تَفْسِيرًا lā yataṭallabu tafsīran
More languagesFewer languages
self-explanatory in Indonesian
swatafsir

Antonyms of self-explanatory

Forms of self-explanatory

comparativemore self-explanatory
superlativemost self-explanatory

Origin of self-explanatory

From self- + explanatory.

Questions about self-explanatory

What does self-explanatory mean?
Self-explanatory means obvious, having a nature that makes it clear or that explains itself.
What is self-explanatory in Tamil?
Self-explanatory in Tamil is தன்விளக்கம், வெளிப்படை, தானே விளக்குந்தன்மையுள்ள. See Self-explanatory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-explanatory?
Self-explanatory is an adjective.

Words near self-explanatory in the dictionary

  1. self-experimental
  2. self-experimentation
  3. self-experimented
  4. self-experimenting
  5. self-experiments
  6. self-explanatory
  7. self-expression
  8. self-expressions
  9. self-extinguishing
  10. self-fabric
  11. self-faced

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-explanatory (page history and authors); self-explanatory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-explanatory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); self-explanatory (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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