self-sustaining
self-sustaining adjective: able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
Adjective
self-sustaining (comparative more self-sustaining, superlative most self-sustaining)
- Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
- There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the...2007 May 20, Mark Svenvold, “The Zero-Energy Solution”, in The New York Times
- Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel.
- Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.
self-sustaining meaning in Tamil
self-sustaining in Tamil
- தானே தாங்குகின்ற
Forms of self-sustaining
| comparative | more self-sustaining |
|---|---|
| superlative | most self-sustaining |
Origin of self-sustaining
From self- + sustaining.
Questions about self-sustaining
- What does self-sustaining mean?
- Self-sustaining means able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
- What is self-sustaining in Tamil?
- Self-sustaining in Tamil is தானே தாங்குகின்ற. See Self-sustaining meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is self-sustaining?
- Self-sustaining is an adjective.
Words near self-sustaining in the dictionary
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