Definition of SELF

self

Meanings

Plural: selfs, selves

Noun

  • 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

  • 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).

Origin / Etymology

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

Antonyms

nonself, outcross

Scrabble Score: 7

self is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
self is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
self is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

self is a valid Words With Friends word