Self-help
Definition of Self-help
Self`-help´ | n. | 1. | The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others. | | 2. | (Law) The right or fact of redressing or preventing wrongs by one's own action without recourse to legal proceedings, as in self-defense, distress, abatement of a nuisance, etc. | | 3. | developing one's capabilities or solving one's own problems, especially psychological problems, without the assistance of a professional, by independent study or by association with other individuals having similar interests. | | a. | 1. | of, pertaining to, or useful for the process of developing one's capabilities or solving one's problems; as, self-help books on writing for profit. |
Related Words
aid, assist, assistance, help
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Self-estimation
Self-evidence
Self-evident
Self-evolution
Self-exaltation
Self-examinant
Self-examination
Self-excite
Self-existence
Self-existent
self-explaining
Self-exposure
Self-fertilization
Self-fertilized
Self-glorious
Self-government
Self-gratulation
Self-hardening
Self-heal
Self-healing
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Self-homicide
Self-ignorance
Self-ignorant
Self-imparting
Self-importance
Self-important
Self-imposed
Self-imposture
Self-indignation
Self-induction
Self-indulgence
Self-indulgent
Self-interest
Self-interested
Self-involution
Self-justifier
Self-kindled
Self-knowing
Self-knowledge
Self-life
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