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SELF-CONTAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself
Example:
the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities
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complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In full control of your faculties
Example:
strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble
Synonyms:
collected; equanimous; poised; self-collected; self-contained; self-possessed
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composed (serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress)
Context examples:
A man of deep character, a man with an alert mind, grim, ascetic, self-contained, formidable—so I read Dr. Leslie Armstrong.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Somehow, in spite of his prowess, his old school name of Boy had clung very naturally to him, until that instant when I saw him standing in his self-contained and magnificent manhood in the doorway of the ancient house.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
