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SELF-APPOINTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-appointed mean?
• SELF-APPOINTED (adjective)
The adjective SELF-APPOINTED has 1 sense:
1. designated or chosen by yourself
Familiarity information: SELF-APPOINTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Designated or chosen by yourself
Context example:
a self-appointed guardian of public morals
Similar:
unauthorised; unauthorized (not endowed with authority)
Context examples
Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self-appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton’s.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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