self-taught
adjective
1
: having knowledge or skills acquired by one's own efforts without formal instruction
a self-taught musician
2
: learned by oneself
self-taught knowledge
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the cellist's success is all the more remarkable because she is self-taught
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
Upon discovering that his pop star hero, Prince, was self-taught, the teen picked up a guitar.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024
His legal training is all self-taught, as is everything with Dwight.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2024
Tanya Tagaq, another artist pushing throat singing into the ether, is self-taught almost by accident.
—Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
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“Self-taught.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-taught. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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