self-perpetuating

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Causing itself to continue to exist.
    — The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.

词形变化

more self-perpetuating comparative most self-perpetuating superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English perpetuating
English self-perpetuating
From self- + perpetuating.
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