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self-contained

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Adjective
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self-con=tained

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective self-contained has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-containeda. 
  •  Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.  [1913 Webster]
Self-contained steam engine. (a) A steam engine having both bearings for the crank shaft attached to the frame of the engine. (b) A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-contained, adj.
1 (of a person) uncommunicative; independent.
2 Brit. (esp. of living-accommodation) complete in itself.

Derivative
self-containment n.

THESAURUS

self-contained

acquisitive, aloof, ambitious for self, autarchic, autarkic, autistic, autonomous, bashful, calm, careerist, close, collected, complete, composed, controlled, cool, detached, dissociable, distant, egotistical, entire, even-tempered, formal, free-spirited, freewheeling, grasping, grave, greedy, imperturbable, in control, incompatible, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, insociable, mopey, mopish, morose, narcissistic, neutral, nonaligned, nongregarious, nonpartisan, peaceful, personalistic, placid, possessive, privatistic, remote, reserved, reticent, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-controlled, self-dependent, self-determined, self-devoted, self-directing, self-esteeming, self-governed, self-governing, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-seeking, self-serving, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, selfish, serene, serious, snug, sober, socially incompatible, solemn, sovereign, standoffish, sullen, third-force, third-world, tranquil, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undisturbed, unemotional, unflappable, unfriendly, ungenial, unitary, unperturbed, unruffled, unsociable, unsocial, whole, withdrawn
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