self

Plural: selfs, selves

Noun

• A person's essential being or individual identity.
• your consciousness of your own identity
• a person considered as a unique individual
  • "one's own self"
• 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.
• 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).

Adjective

• (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self
  • "self-knowledge"
  • "self-proclaimed"
  • "self-induced"

Pron

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

Verb

Verb Forms: selfed, selfing, selfs

• To inbreed; to breed organisms closely related to each other.
• To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
• To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.

Adj

• 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).

Examples

• a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood
• a self flower or plant: one which is wholly of one colour
• He often played words that reflected his true SELF, even if they weren’t the highest scoring.
• I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.
• This argument was put forward by the defendant self.
• To SELF, or not to SELF, that is the question when you have a duplicate letter.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

nonself, outcross

Related Words

I, ego, person, self-

Anagrams of self