self-sustained

1. 1.

   needing no outside support

   Similarunfueled

Questions about self-sustained

What does self-sustained mean?

self-sustained means "needing no outside support".

How many syllables are in self-sustained?

self-sustained has 3 syllables and divides as self--su-stained 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-sustained a common word?

self-sustained 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.