Meanings
- not comparableAccording to a person's own confession or admission.
A self-confessed novice in transport policy, it didn't take long for Greenwood to become well acquainted with the subject.
2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 311 more example
American democracy still prefers candidates to go from door to door and picnic to picnic, shaking hands. Trump is going have to conquer his self-confessed germophobia if he’s going to win
2016 February 2, Timothy Stanley, “Donald Trump bid badly wounded in Iowa”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2016
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveowned up to
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*swé?
- Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*selbaz
- Old Englishself
- Old Englishself-
- Middle Englishself-
- Englishself-
- Englishconfessed
- Englishself-confessed
Cite this entry
self-confessed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-confessed
“self-confessed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-confessed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-confessed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-confessed.
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