English Online Dictionary. What means itself? What does itself mean?
English
Alternative forms
- it self, it selfe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪtˈsɛlf/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪtˈself/
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, gender-neutral themself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- The door closed by itself
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
Synonyms
- itsself (obsolete)
Derived terms
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See also
Anagrams
- flites, elfist, filets, fistle, stifle, fliest