self-contained

English

Etymology

self- +‎ contained

Adjective

self-contained (comparative more self-contained, superlative most self-contained)

1. Not requiring external or additional support; complete in itself.

   a self-contained apartment

   a self-contained classroom

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 109:

     Whereas the history of the London Underground is generally very fiddly, the history of the Waterloo & City is blessedly self-contained and simple.

2. (of a person) Wrapped up in oneself; reserved.

Hypernyms

• contained

Translations

not requiring external or additional support

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 設施齊全的, 设施齐全的 (shèshī qíquán de), 獨立／独立 (zh) (dúlì), 独立 (zh) (dúlì), 自給／自给 (zh) (zìjǐ), 自给 (zh) (zìjǐ)

• Finnish: omavarainen (fi)
• French: autonome (fr), indépendant (fr)
• German: autark (de), autonom (de), selbstständig (de)
• Hungarian: önálló (hu)
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• Japanese: 自給の (じきゅうの, jikyū no)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: автоно́мный (ru) (avtonómnyj), незави́симый (ru) (nezavísimyj), самостоя́тельный (ru) (samostojátelʹnyj)
• Spanish: autónomo (es) m
• Vietnamese: khép kín (vi)