Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autodidactically

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-to-di-dac-ti-cal-ly
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

7

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

By teaching oneself.

Example Sentences

"He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically."
"More than Spohr did Paganini draw the young autodidactically educated artist after him, and for this reason the latter went from Cassel to Paris to hear the famous Italian and to make some of his artifices his own."
"Zaynullah enjoyed a general reputation for "foreign knowledge," presumably acquired autodidactically from the manuals of scientific popularization that were beginning to proliferate in Kazan Turkic."

Etymology

From autodidactic + -ally.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: autodidactic

Questions

What does autodidactically mean?: By teaching oneself.
Where does autodidactically come from?: From autodidactic + -ally.

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