self-educate

verb

self-ed·​u·​cate ˌself-ˈe-jə-ˌkāt 

self-educated; self-educating; self-educates

transitive verb

: to educate oneself

Libraries of all types, at their very roots, seek to provide people with the opportunity to explore knowledge and to self-educate throughout their lives.

—Jean Donham

The important lesson is to self-educate [=inform yourself] and research products that are safe and beneficial for your pets.

—Joanna Bronson

Examples of self-educate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My parents were largely self-educated after high school, and both were passionate readers. — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 22 Aug. 2026

Most of those buyers want to self-educate, stay anonymous for as long as possible and validate through peers rather than reps. — Sachin Gupta, Forbes.com, 7 May 2026

There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory. — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

By contrast, Lummis, a New Englander who had attended Harvard but was largely self-educated, became fascinated by the Southwest and tirelessly promoted it. — David Allen, Daily News, 29 July 2025

Books allow us to self-educate and facilitate meaningful conversations about myriad topics. — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025

The Lincoln penny was designed not just to pay its way but to remind us that a non-billionaire — born on the prairie, self-educated, and committed to the idea of upward mobility — once rose from a log cabin to the White House. — Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025

That's going to be incredibly important for voters to self-educate about those options just in case there are problems with the postal service. — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024

Instagram and TikTok have completely changed how new watch buyers self-educate. — Cameron Barr, Robb Report, 24 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for self-educate

• abbreviate
• accelerate
• accommodate
• accumulate
• acuminate
• adjudicate
• adulterate
• affiliate
• agglomerate
• agglutinate
• alleviate
• amalgamate