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self-contained
adjective as in independent
adjective as in independent
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Strong match
adjective as in reserved
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adjective as in self-reliant
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Weak matches
adjective as in self-contained
adjective as in self-controlled
Weak matches
- aloof
- backward
- bashful
- cautious
- ceremonious
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- collected
- composed
- controlled
- conventional
- cool
- demure
- diffident
- distant
- eremitic
- formal
- frigid
- gentle
- icy
- inhibited
- mild
- misanthropic
- modest
- noncommittal
- offish
- peaceful
- placid
- prim
- quiet
- reclusive
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- secretive
- sedate
- self-restrained
- serene
- shy
- soft-spoken
- solitary
- standoffish
- taciturn
- unapproachable
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- undemonstrative
- unresponsive
- withdrawn
adjective as in self-restrained
Weak matches
- aloof
- backward
- bashful
- cautious
- ceremonious
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- collected
- composed
- controlled
- conventional
- cool
- demure
- diffident
- distant
- eremitic
- formal
- frigid
- gentle
- icy
- inhibited
- mild
- misanthropic
- modest
- noncommittal
- offish
- peaceful
- placid
- prim
- quiet
- reclusive
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- secretive
- sedate
- self-controlled
- serene
- shy
- soft-spoken
- solitary
- standoffish
- taciturn
- unapproachable
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- undemonstrative
- unresponsive
- withdrawn
adjective as in self-supporting
adjective as in closed
adjective as in impassive
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Weak matches
- apathetic
- callous
- cold
- cold-blooded
- collected
- composed
- dispassionate
- dry
- hardened
- heartless
- imperturbable
- indifferent
- indurated
- inexcitable
- inexpressive
- inscrutable
- insensible
- insusceptible
- nonchalant
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sedate
- spiritless
- stoical
- unconcerned
- unexcitable
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unmoved
- wooden
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Example Sentences
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.
At its peak The Farm had 1,500 members; it was a self-contained world with its own school, farm, midwives and social tenets.
The acting exists in a self-contained bubble of Phoenix yelling at Hoffman and Hoffman yelling at Phoenix, and more yelling.
Each of Baker's paragraphs also seem to exist in a self-contained platform.
A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into a bore.
"Lovers" would serve better, but is perhaps too expansive to be used of a self-contained race.
She could scarcely reconcile this acute, self-contained man with the enthusiast and comedian she had seen in the Cure's garden.
Quiet and reserved he always was, a self-contained child whose only friend was his mother.
He watched her as she went about her work, silent, self-contained and solitary.
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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-contained, such as: autonomous, self-governing, self-sufficient, self-supporting, absolute, and autarchic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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