self-made
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.17 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
adj
Example Sentences
- "My father was the quintessential self-made man."
- "There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of."
- "“These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added."
- "Near-synonyms: homemade, homebrew, homespun, handmade; see also Thesaurus:custom-made"
- "Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English made English self-made From self- + made.