self

Meanings

Pronoun

• Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
• Myself.

Noun

• One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
• The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
• An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
• Self-interest or personal advantage.
• Identity or personality.
• A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
• A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
• Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

Verb

• To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
• To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

Adjective

• Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
• Same, identical.
• Belonging to oneself; own.
• Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

Related

Similar words

• cyberself
• herself
• himself
• itself
• myself
• non-self
• one's self
• oneself
• ourselves
• technoself
• themselves
• thyself
• yourself
• yourselves

Opposite words

• nonself
• outcross

Origin

• From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰, German selbst and Dutch zelf.