English Explanatory Dictionary

myself

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
  2. Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
  3. In my normal state of body or mind.
  4. Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
  5. I (as the subject of a verb).
  6. my name is...
pron
  1. Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Pronunciation

/maɪˈsɛlf/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-myself.wav en-us-myself.ogg /məˈsɛlf/

Word forms

myself case of I meself myselfe

Etymology

From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

Synonyms

me

Related words

myselves I'll see myself out Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme we us ourselvesourselfoursen oursourn our you yourselfyoursen yoursyourn your thou thee thyselftheeselfthysen thine thythine youye yourselves you ally'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' he him himselfhisselfhissen hishisn his she her herselfhersen hershern ithit itselfhitself itshis itshishits they them themself themselves theirs their one oneself – one's themhem 'em themselvestheirsen theirstheirn The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
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