Usually means: Able to depend on oneself.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word self-reliant:

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  1. self-reliant: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-reliant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-reliant, self-reliant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. self-reliant: Vocabulary.com
  5. Self-Reliant, Self-reliant, self-reliant: Wordnik
  6. self-reliant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. self-reliant: Wiktionary
  8. self-reliant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. self-reliant: Dictionary.com
  10. Self-reliant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Self-reliant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. self-reliant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. self-reliant: Rhymezone
  14. Self-reliant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. self-reliant: FreeDictionary.org
  16. self-reliant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. self-reliant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. self-reliant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-reliant: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

Similar:
self-directed, autonomous, independent, selfsecure, self-confiding, self-standing, reliant, self-sustaining, dependent, self-thinking, more...

Opposite:
dependent, reliant on others, needy, helpless



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Similar:
self-directed, autonomous, independent, selfsecure, self-confiding, self-standing, reliant, self-sustaining, dependent, self-thinking, more...

Opposite:
dependent, reliant on others, needy, helpless



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