Self-sustained and Substantive

Self-sustained adjective - Able to take care of oneself or itself without outside help.

Substantive and self-sustained are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Substantive" instead an adjective phrase "Self-sustained".

Substantive adjective - Sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention.

Self-sustained and substantive are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Self-sustained" with "Substantive", this terms are similar.

Nearby Words: substance, substantial, substantially, substantival, substantivized