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Antonyms for self-explanatory


Grammar : Adj
Spell : self-ik-splan-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, self-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛlf ɪkˈsplæn əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˌsɛlf-



Definition of self-explanatory

Origin :
  • 1813, from self- + explanatory.
  • adj obvious
Example sentences :
  • Then there is a "two-day stand" and a "one-night stand," which are self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « The Art of Stage Dancing » by Ned Wayburn
  • The second method of committing the slicing sin is self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Golfer [1905] » by Harry Vardon
  • Not a bad-looking woman, of a sort, but not self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « It Never Can Happen Again » by William De Morgan
  • In our economic experience, no more than elsewhere, is satisfaction an ultimate and self-explanatory term.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • The name is self-explanatory and suggests a well-colored meerschaum.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Book of Cheese » by Robert Carlton Brown
  • This is indicated in Fig. 11, which, otherwise, is self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design » by Edward Godfrey
  • I think that Cadigan Exhibits Nos. 16, 17, and 18 are self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • To a statesman of Hanley's astuteness, the largeness of Livingstone's contribution to the campaign fund was self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « The Consul » by Richard Harding Davis
  • The subsequent reductions of the equations, as they appear in the figure for four zones, are self-explanatory.
  • Extract from : « A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. » by George H. Lowery.
  • He was a short, sallow, delicate-looking young fellow with self-explanatory puffs under his somewhat prominent eyes.
  • Extract from : « A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill » by Alice Hegan Rice

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