do-it-yourself

1. 1.

   done by yourself

   “their house was a do-it-yourself project”

   “he opened a do-it-yourself store”

   Similarhomemade

Questions about do-it-yourself

What does do-it-yourself mean?

do-it-yourself means "done by yourself".

How many syllables are in do-it-yourself?

do-it-yourself has 3 syllables: do-i-t-your-self. The stress falls on "do-i".

Is do-it-yourself a common word?

do-it-yourself is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.