self-sufficing

1. 1.

   able to provide for your own needs without help from others

   “a self-sufficing economic unit”

   Synonymsself-sufficientself-sustaining

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Questions about self-sufficing

What does self-sufficing mean?

self-sufficing means "able to provide for your own needs without help from others".

How many syllables are in self-sufficing?

self-sufficing has 4 syllables and divides as self--suf-fi-cing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.