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self-helpish

self-helpish adjective: reminiscent of the self-help movement or literature.

Adjective

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

  1. Reminiscent of the self-help movement or literature.
    • Block's tone in different passages runs the gamut from the most cloying, self-helpish pep talk to revival-tent preacherese, but is characterized throughout by intellectual murkiness and psychological jargon that will leave many a parent completely confused about what Dr. Block is talking about.1976 April 26, Duncan Mitchel, “Boys and Girls Together”, in Gay Community News, page 15

Forms of self-helpish

comparativemore self-helpish
superlativemost self-helpish

Questions about self-helpish

What does self-helpish mean?
Self-helpish means reminiscent of the self-help movement or literature.
What part of speech is self-helpish?
Self-helpish is an adjective.

Words near self-helpish in the dictionary

  1. self-heating
  2. self-helixing
  3. self-help
  4. self-helper
  5. self-helpers
  6. self-helpish
  7. self-helpy
  8. self-heterodyne
  9. self-homeomorphism
  10. self-homeomorphisms
  11. self-homicide

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