self-explanatory
Example Sentences
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Many of the new titles aren’t exactly self-explanatory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
A mud ball is actually quite self-explanatory - it's when golf balls get covered in mud and dirt during bad weather.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
Long Beach officials settled on the self-explanatory “Backyard Builders Program,” hoping a partial solution to a dearth of affordable housing lies in the unused spaces of city homeowners’ property.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
Yet the collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday might have been avoided, some of the engineers said, if the piers were adequately equipped with blocking devices with a self-explanatory name: fenders.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
“There’s a bunch of purple paintbrushes,” he said, pointing at flowers that are pretty self-explanatory, I should think.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
