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What is another word for self-contained?

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Standing apart from other things or people

Complete, or having all that is needed, by itself

Reserved or unemotional in nature or character

(of a person) Independent and self-reliant

Of being a once-off event or situation

Preferring the internal, satisfied with self, lacking interest or comfort in social interactions

Having an inflated idea of one's own importance

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Standing apart from other things or people

divided along racial lines

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“I rented a self-contained unit by the beach, my base for the next few weeks.”

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Complete, or having all that is needed, by itself

complete

full-featured

fully functional

“In our health clubs, we have self-contained shower units offering clients complete privacy to wash and get changed.”

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Reserved or unemotional in nature or character

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“Mrs. Protheroe was a quiet, self-contained woman whom one would not suspect of any great depths of feeling.”

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(of a person) Independent and self-reliant

standing on one's own two feet

able to stand on one's own two feet

doing one's own thing

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“When she came out fully dressed, she looked tired and pale, but her head was high and her manner proudly self-contained.”

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Of being a once-off event or situation

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Preferring the internal, satisfied with self, lacking interest or comfort in social interactions

playing your cards close to your chest

mom^US

mum^UK

labored^US

laboured^UK

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Having an inflated idea of one's own importance

in love with yourself

wrapped up in oneself

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

too big for your boots

looking after number one

pleased with yourself

think too highly of oneself

think a lot of oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

sure

too big for your breeches

looking out for number one

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that's got the cream

phony^US

phoney^UK

blowing one's own trumpet

too big for your britches

blowing one's own horn

offensively self-assertive

throwing one's weight around

throwing one's weight about

resting on your laurels

overambitious

flashy

like the cat that got the cream

gone Hollywood

over-refined

positive

full of airs and graces

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