itself
/ɪtˈsɛlf/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.10 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
Example Sentences
- "When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us)."
- "The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity."
- "Nevertheless, Bumble, the dating app which once styled itself as a beacon of women’s empowerment because heterosexual women had to make the first move, appears to have missed the memo."
- "The door itself is quite heavy."
- "Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent."
- "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪtˈsɛlf/
- British English: /ɪtˈsɛlf/
Usage
Inflected Forms
it (reflexive of)
himself (masculine)
herself (feminine)
themself (gender neutral)
themselves (plural)
it self (alternative, obsolete)
it selfe (alternative, obsolete)