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self-reliant
[ self-ri-lahy-uhnt, self- ]
adjective
- relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
Synonyms: capable, resolute, enterprising, assured, independent
Other Words From
- self-re·liant·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-reliant1
Example Sentences
And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.
The workers are treated respectfully and are able to earn a self-reliant living.
The right loves to bash New York's Citi Bike system, but bike share embodies the privatized, self-reliant ideals they espouse.
To what degree are we as Americans truly self-made and self-reliant?
As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
The trait is not rare in mankind in general, but it is exceptional in men of a character so self-reliant and decided as Nelson.
But you must be self-reliant, and put them on the list of experiments.
It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.
But the terms of peace were not to the taste of the enterprising and self-reliant Huguenots of Languedoc and Guyenne.
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