self-educated

1. 1.

   educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction

   Similareducated

Questions about self-educated

What does self-educated mean?

self-educated means "educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction".

How many syllables are in self-educated?

self-educated has 5 syllables: sel-f-e-du-ca-ted. The stress falls on "du".

Is self-educated a common word?

self-educated 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.