self-supporting

1. 1.

   financially independent

   “now that my children are self-supporting”

   Similarindependent

Questions about self-supporting

What does self-supporting mean?

self-supporting means "financially independent".

How many syllables are in self-supporting?

self-supporting has 4 syllables and divides as self--sup-por-ting 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.

Is self-supporting a common word?

self-supporting 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.