self-confessed

1. 1.

   owned up to

   “his admitted doubts”

   “the conceded error”

   “a confessed murderer”

   “a self-confessed plagiarist”

   Similaracknowledged

Questions about self-confessed

What does self-confessed mean?

self-confessed means "owned up to".

How many syllables are in self-confessed?

self-confessed has 3 syllables: self--confes-sed. The stress falls on "self-".

Is self-confessed a common word?

self-confessed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.