self
self Lexical Profile
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• noun
A person's essential being, consciousness, or identity that distinguishes them from others.
"Meditation helped her reconnect with her inner self."
A person's typical or particular nature, character, or demeanor at a given time.
"After a good night's sleep, he was back to his cheerful old self."
One's own personal interests, welfare, or advantage.
"True leadership requires putting the team's goals ahead of self."
• pronoun
Myself, yourself, himself, or herself (used primarily in commercial, legal, or informal contexts such as checks and memos).
"He made the check payable to self in order to withdraw cash at the counter."
• adjective
Of a single, uniform color, material, or constituent throughout, without variation or pattern (especially of textiles or flowers).
"The dress was made of heavy silk with a self belt of the same fabric."
• verb
To pollinate or fertilize a plant or organism with its own pollen or gametes, or to undergo self-pollination or self-fertilization (in botany and genetics).
"The botanist selfed the hybrid orchids to produce a homozygous line."
• Rhymes for self
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz, denoting one's own person or identity.