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self-styled

self-styled adjective: claimed by the recipient, as a title one gave to oneself.

Adjective

self-styled (not comparable)

  1. Claimed by the recipient, as a title one gave to oneself.
    • This self-styled king of the hill must prove himself before the title has any worth.
    • “A more heartfelt word, notwithstanding its playfulness,” said the elder lady, “than some of those self-styled patriots, that come here to give us laws, would pronounce, I have no doubt.”1847, Emily Chubbuck, Allen Lucas, the Self-made Man, page 152

self-styled meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam

self-styled in Hindi

claimed by the recipient
स्वघोषित svaghoṣit

self-styled in Tamil

தற்சூட்டான, உரிமையின்றி, தானே தனக்குச் சூட்டிக்கொண்ட, பெயர்ப் போலியான, போலியாக, தனக்குத்தானே பெயர் சூட்டிக்கொண்டுவிட்ட

self-styled in Malayalam

self-appointed, would-be, so-called
സ്വയം പ്രഖ്യാപിത, സ്വയാവരോധിത, സ്വയം വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ഭാവിക്കുന്ന, സ്വയം അവകാശപ്പെടുന്ന, എന്നുസ്വയം പറയുന്ന

Examples of self-styled in a sentence

  • Partial results showed Hollande – a former Socialist party leader, rural MP and self-styled Mr Normal – with a clear lead at more than 28%, compared with Sarkozy on 27%.2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
  • If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility.2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian...

Synonyms of self-styled

All synonyms of self-styled

Origin of self-styled

From self- + styled.

Questions about self-styled

What does self-styled mean?
Self-styled means claimed by the recipient, as a title one gave to oneself.
What is self-styled in Hindi?
Self-styled in Hindi is स्वघोषित (svaghoṣit). See Self-styled meaning in Hindi.
How do you use self-styled in a sentence?
Partial results showed Hollande – a former Socialist party leader, rural MP and self-styled Mr Normal – with a clear lead at more than 28%, compared with Sarkozy on 27%.
What part of speech is self-styled?
Self-styled is an adjective.

Words near self-styled in the dictionary

  1. self-study
  2. self-studying
  3. self-stultification
  4. self-stultifications
  5. self-stultifying
  6. self-styled
  7. self-suck
  8. self-sucked
  9. self-sucker
  10. self-suckers
  11. self-sucking

Source and license

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