self-sufficient
/ˌsɛlfsəˈfɪʃ(ə)nt
/adjective
1Needing no outside help in satisfying one’s basic needs, especially with regard to the production of food: I don’t think the country could ever be self-sufficient in food...
- Local communities outside the cities are largely self-sufficient in food production.
- We believe that Montserrat should be self-sufficient in food production.
- Approximately 85 percent of the population live in rural areas and are largely self-sufficient in food production, and many derive cash income from export cash crops and local food markets.
1.1Emotionally and intellectually independent: their son was a little bit of a loner and very self-sufficient...
- When I was dating the man who would become my third husband, I finally felt self-sufficient emotionally.
- As independent, self-sufficient camp professionals, we all chafe at increasing government involvement in our personal lives and camp operations.
- Lisa emotionally withdrew and became, in every way, an adult - a self-sufficient person with her emotions and her life under tight control.
Synonyms
independent, self-supporting, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump;
self-contained, self-made
rare autarkic, autarkical
Derivatives
self-sufficiently
- Living out of a van for awhile, homeless for a little while longer, he eventually returned to Quebec to build and live as self-sufficiently as possible in an 800-square-foot cabin way out in the middle of the woods.
- He set up home, deep in the English countryside and endeavoured to live self-sufficiently, from a small holding with only a few pigs and chickens.
- The problem is that those people don't have the purchasing power to buy that food that we are self-sufficiently producing.