单词 | self-sufficing |
释义 | self-sufficingadj. Not needing or relying on external assistance, support, or aid. Formerly also: †having excessive confidence in oneself or one's abilities; arrogant; presumptuous (obsolete). Cf. self-sufficient adj. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > self-sufficient suffisanta1340 sufficient for (to) oneself1382 substantive1543 self-suffisant1589 self-sufficient1596 self-sustaining1598 self-contained1605 self-subsisting1608 self-supporting1632 self-dependent1642 self-full1642 self-subsistent1646 self-sufficing1647 self-relying1648 self-depending1669 independent1670 self-sustained1675 unbenefitable1688 self-sufficed1709 self-supported1736 self-containing1826 self-reliant1834 autarkic1883 the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [adjective] over-trusty?c1225 assured1477 self-wise1573 confident1600 flush1604 crested1619 sufficienta1625 self-sufficient1628 self-confiding1647 self-trustinga1660 self-secure1679 self-assured1711 cocksure1842 secure1859 self-sufficing1874 ten feet tall1962 1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis 134 Black ignorance did first begin To blurre thy beauteous Image, and deface The glory of thy self-sufficing grace. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 84 Why not indulge his self-sufficing state, Live to himself..A wise eternal Epicure? 1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy II. iv. 41 The Independent and Self-sufficing Divine Idea. 1800 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. in Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 167 A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual All-in-all. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 164 So great, quiet, complete and self-sufficing is this Shakspeare. 1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 157 In spite of some fond fit Of self-sufficing thoughts. 1935 J. O'Neill Land under Eng. xvii. 236 Before my descent, I had lived a lonely, self-sufficing life. 1997 V. Tejera Rewriting Hist. of Anc. Greek Philos. iii. 41 The pace of the verse is..sometimes really ponderant like a self-sufficing thinker rapt in thought. Derivatives self-suˈfficingness n. now rare the state or condition of not needing or relying on external assistance, support, or aid; = self-sufficiency n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency sufficiencec1384 suffisancea1450 self-sufficiency1598 autarky1617 self-dependencea1620 self-sufficience1623 self-subsistencea1631 self-support1632 self-fullness1668 self-reliance1668 self-dependency1749 self-sustainment1779 self-sustenance1786 self-sufficingness1811 substantiveness1821 self-sustentationa1832 self-containment1841 self-sufficientness1846 self-containing1850 self-supportedness1862 rugged individualism1898 1811 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 14 Sept. That ill-timed overweening sense of their own self-sufficingness. 1881 F. W. H. Myers Wordsworth 13 A picture..of hardy English youth,—its proud self-sufficingness and careless independence of all human things. 1944 H. Wodehouse One Kind of Relig. iii. 20 The Epicurean spending himself in teaching self-sufficingness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1647 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。