Meanings
adjectiveself-taught (comparative more self-taught, superlative most self-taught)
comparative more self-taught · superlative most self-taught
- Educated or trained by oneself.
It's this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.
1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*swé?
- Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*selbaz
- Old Englishself
- Old Englishself-
- Middle Englishself-
- Englishself-
- Englishtaught
- Englishself-taught
Translations
Spanish autoenseñado
- autoenseñadoeducated by oneself
Cite this entry
APA
self-taught. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-taught
MLA
“self-taught.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-taught. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-taught,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-taught.
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