autodidactically

adverb

By teaching oneself.

“He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically.”

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adverbautodidactically (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBy teaching oneself.

    He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically.

    2 more examples

    More than Spohr did Paganini draw the young autodidactically educated artist after him, and for this reason the latter went from Cassel to Paris to hear the famous Italian and to make some of his artifices his own.

    1894, “Celebrated Violinists Past and Present”, in The Strad, volume 6, page 203

    Zaynullah enjoyed a general reputation for "foreign knowledge," presumably acquired autodidactically from the manuals of scientific popularization that were beginning to proliferate in Kazan Turkic.

    1992, Jo-Ann Gross, Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, page 123

Origin

Translations

Polish autodydaktycznie
  • autodydaktycznieTranslations
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