Meaning

(reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject..

Definitions by Sense

1. (reflexive pronoun) 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. (proscribed) Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
5. (archaic, now proscribed) I (as the subject of a verb).
6. (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...

Example Sentences

I taught myself.

(I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.

Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

“If you were a little bit kinder to yourself today, or if you gained insight, if you had an ‘Aha’ like, ‘Oh, man, I really do talk to myself the way my mom talked to me,’ or you identify a childhood wound … all of that is a form of reparenting,” she said.

I myself have witnessed the event.

I feel like myself.

Give the ball to John or myself.

My wife and myself want to go on vacation.

Word Forms

• case of I
• meself
• myselfe

Synonyms for myself

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When Should You Use Myself?

Use myself when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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