Nearby Words

Yourself

[yoor-self, yawr-, yohr-, yer-]

your·self

[yoor-self, yawr-, yohr-, yer-]
pronoun, plural -selves [-selvz] .
1.
(an emphatic appositive of you or ye): a letter you yourself wrote.
2.
a reflexive form of you (used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition): Don't blame yourself. Did you ever ask yourself “why”? You can think for yourself.
3.
Informal. (used in place of you, especially in compound subjects, objects, and complements): Ted and yourself have been elected. We saw your sister and yourself at the game. People like yourselves always feel like that.
4.
(used in absolute constructions): Yourself having so little money, how could they expect you to help?
5.
your normal or customary self: You'll soon be yourself again.
EXPAND
6.
(used in place of you after as, than, or but): scholars as famous as yourselves; a girl no older than yourself.
7.
oneself: The surest way is to do it yourself.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see your, self


See myself.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To Yourself

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Yourself is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Collins
World English Dictionary
yourself (jɔːˈsɛlf, jʊə-)
 
pron , pl -selves
1.  a.  the reflexive form of you
 b.  (intensifier): you yourself control your destiny
2.  (preceded by a copula) your normal or usual self: you're not yourself these days

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature