self-made
adjective
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adj
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 made English self-made From self- + made.
- Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
“My father was the quintessential self-made man.”
“There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.”
- Made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
“Near-synonyms: homemade, homebrew, homespun, handmade; see also Thesaurus:custom-made”
“Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.”