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self-taught
[ self-tawt ]
adjective
- having become as specified by teaching oneself, without the aid of formal education:
She’s a self-taught photographer who sells her work online.
- learned by oneself:
Particularly impressive is his self-taught mastery of the guitar.
self-taught
adjective
- having learnt oneself without any external or formal instruction
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-taught1
Example Sentences
Tuchman was often criticized by academicians for being a self-taught historian with only a BA.
The 25-year-old self-taught sewer caters her designs to what her customers want.
Often their religion is self-taught, cherry-picking slogans from the religious texts or, these days, from videos on the Web.
She has a blog, Fox on Stocks, where the self-taught savant holds forth on the ins and outs of the market.
Chen is a self-taught legal advocate but was never allowed to take formal law courses.
In many of his pictures he gives the impression of a self-taught man, who sought to help himself to the best of his power.
This letter was addressed to one John Smybert, also a self-taught artist.
With singular good luck he found the means of carrying out his design in a self-taught mechanic, James Brindley.
His speech was the elaborated and painfully emphasized English of the self-taught East Sider.
The eight-hour movement drew its inspiration from an economic theory advanced by a self-taught Boston machinist, Ira Steward.
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