self-taught

self-taught
/self"tawt"/, adj.
1. taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
2. learned by oneself: a self-taught mastery of the guitar.
[1715-25]

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