autodidact
- n a person who has taught himself
- A prolific writer and autodidact who authored eight books and 70 magazine articles, Carnegie was a voluble, if sometimes naive, adherent of the Victorian faith in mankind's progress.
- Rove, an autodidact and amateur historian, insists that presidents should be judged on a 180-day timetable, since the legislative calendar follows one.
- A voracious autodidact, Borduas craved escape from the stifling local art scene.