SELF-EDUCATED Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

self-educated

adjective

ˌself-ˈe-jə-ˌkā-təd

Definition of self-educated

as in self-taught

having skills or knowledge acquired through one's own efforts without formal training a self-educated computer programmer who launched a successful business online

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However, a majority, 84%, of people say they're self-taught with no formal training in AI, and 55% say their workplace doesn't have an official AI policy, per the survey of 1,686 workers.

— Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026
Smith started in finance and was self-taught in the business of fashion, building brands from the ground up, learning every part of the process–design, product development, manufacturing, marketing–by doing.

— Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of self-taught

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In an early study, researchers collected about five hours of primitive tennis movements from amateur players using a compact motion-capture setup.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
In the 1850s, while living in Seneca Falls, New York, amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote did a series of experiments that put different substances, including carbon dioxide and moist air, inside glass cylinders and left them in the sun.

— Peter Prengaman, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

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