self

Meaning of self

noun
  1. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
    one's true self; one's better self; one's former self
  2. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
  3. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
  4. Self-interest or personal advantage.
  5. Identity or personality.
  6. A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
  7. A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
  8. 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
  1. To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
  2. To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
adjective
  1. Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
    a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood
  2. Same, identical.
  3. Belonging to oneself; own.
  4. 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).
pronoun
  1. Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
    This argument was put forward by the defendant self.
  2. Myself.
    I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.

Information about self

  • The plural form of self is: selfs.
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Hyphenation of self

self

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • self is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

self synonyms

Meaning person:

person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal

Meaning ego:

ego

self antonyms

Meaning :

nonself, outcross

Translation of self

  • Italian: io
  • Spanish: yo
  • French: moi

Anagrams of self

elfs, Fels, fels

Words that rhyme with self

oneself, reself, hemself, himself, themself, nonself, ownself, unself, herself, ourself, theirself, underself, yourself, asself, hisself, usself, itself, notself, myself, thyself

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