Self-sufficing (Adjective)
Meaning
Able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The community has strived to be self-sufficing, generating their own power and growing their own food.
- Her grandmother's small farm was self-sufficing, with livestock and a large garden providing all their necessities.
- In his utopian vision, every town would be a self-sufficing economic unit with local industry and resources.
- A key principle of permaculture is to create self-sufficing ecosystems that produce more than they consume.
- This off-grid house was designed to be a self-sufficing haven, collecting its own rainwater and using solar panels for energy.