Definition of Self-sustained

1. Adjective. Needing no outside support.

Similar to: Unfueled

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sustained

self-starter
self-starters
self-starting
self-statement
self-sterile
self-stimulation
self-storage
self-study
self-styled
self-sufficiency
self-sufficient
self-sufficing
self-suggestion
self-support
self-supporting
self-sustained (current term)
self-sustaining
self-synchronization
self-synchronize
self-synchronized
self-synchronizes
self-synchronizing
self-talk
self-tapping
self-tapping screw
self-tapping screws
self-taught
self-taught art
self-titled
self-torment

Literary usage of Self-sustained

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Evolution of Worlds by Percival Lowell (1909)
"CHAPTER VI A PLANET'S HISTORY self-sustained Stage UP to this point in our retrospective survey the long course of evolution has taken one line, ..."

2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1860)
"Those who zealously and successfully employ their time will, by degrees, be intrusted with a greater period for self-sustained intellectual or physical ..."

3. National Education in Europe: Being an Account of the Organization by Henry Barnard (1854)
"Until habits of attention and steady application had been formed, it seemed undesirable to allow to the pupils hours for self-sustained study, or voluntary ..."

4. Impressions of America and the American Churches by George Lewis (1845)
"The self-sustained churches of America, whether from the imperfect cultivation of the grace of Christian liberality, or from the want of a proper ..."

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