Definitions for self-contained

self-contained self-con·tained

Spelling: [self-kuh n-teynd, self-]
IPA: /ˈsɛlf kənˈteɪnd, ˌsɛlf-/

Self-Contained is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 2555 anagrams from letters in self-contained (-acdeefilnnost).

Definitions for self-contained

adjective

  1. containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  2. reserved or uncommunicative.
  3. self-controlled or self-possessed.
  4. (of a machine or mechanism) complete in itself.

Origin of self-contained

First recorded in 1585-95

Examples for self-contained

Yet we have just seen that the Greeks of old were too self-contained for their Italian brethren.

They can do this because they believe they operate in self-contained worlds unto themselves.

The three episodes will be a self-contained arc ending at Prom Night and will serve as a prologue for the rest of the series.

To him the subject-matter 23 of the science is self-contained.

At its peak The Farm had 1,500 members; it was a self-contained world with its own school, farm, midwives and social tenets.

Each village community was self-contained, and had its own officers.

The acting exists in a self-contained bubble of Phoenix yelling at Hoffman and Hoffman yelling at Phoenix, and more yelling.

His gloomy eye smouldered as it considered the self-contained buccaneer.

And he was cool, too; cool and self-contained; fearless and purposeful.

Each of Baker's paragraphs also seem to exist in a self-contained platform.

Word Value for self-contained
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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