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self-reliant

self-reliant adjective: reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

Adjective

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

  1. Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
    • The Constitution deliberately makes the President and the Congress competitors as well as partners. The Founding Fathers created an elaborate system of checks and balances to keep each partner self-reliant while still assuring their interdependence. No brief account can fully capture the complexity...1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Bite the Bullet”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 438
    Synonyms:
    self-sufficient

self-reliant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

self-reliant in Hindi

reliant upon oneself
आत्मनिर्भर ātmanirbhar, स्वावलंबी svāvlambī

self-reliant in Tamil

தன்நிற நம்பிக்கையுடைய, தற்சார்புணர்ச்சி உடைய

self-reliant in Malayalam

self-supporting, self-sufficient, self-sustaining
സ്വാശ്രയശീലമുള്ള, സ്വയംപര്യപ്തയുള്ള, സ്വന്തംവരുമാനം കൊണ്ടു ജീവിക്കുന്ന, പരാശ്രയം കൂടാതെ ജീവിക്കുന്ന, സ്വന്തം കാലിൽ നിൽക്കുന്ന, സ്വന്തം കാലിൽ നിൽക്കാൻ കെല്പുള്ള

self-reliant in Kannada

ಸ್ವಾವಲಂಬನೆ, ತನ್ನಂಬಿತ

Synonyms of self-reliant

Forms of self-reliant

comparativemore self-reliant
superlativemost self-reliant

Origin of self-reliant

From self- + reliant.

Questions about self-reliant

What does self-reliant mean?
Self-reliant means reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
What is self-reliant in Hindi?
Self-reliant in Hindi is आत्मनिर्भर (ātmanirbhar), स्वावलंबी (svāvlambī). See Self-reliant meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is self-reliant?
Self-reliant is an adjective.

Words near self-reliant in the dictionary

  1. self-reinforces
  2. self-reinforcing
  3. self-reinvention
  4. self-reinventions
  5. self-reliance
  6. self-reliant
  7. self-religion
  8. self-religions
  9. self-renewing
  10. self-renunciation
  11. self-renunciations

Source and license

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