| Self-educated (a.) Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others. Thesaurus Entries bookish, coeducational, college-bred, collegiate, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educated, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, graduate, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, learned, lecturing, postgraduate, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, self-educated, self-instructed, self-teaching, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, teaching, tuitionary, undergraduate |