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self-contained

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Adjective self-contained has 2 senses
  1. self-contained - constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"
    Antonyms:
    incomplete, uncomplete (indirect, via complete)
    Antonym: incomplete (indirect, via complete)
  2. collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed - in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
    Antonym: discomposed (indirect, via composed)
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