self-sustaining
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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 potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well."
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 sustaining English self-sustaining From self- + sustaining.
Inflected Forms
more self-sustaining (comparative)
most self-sustaining (superlative)