himself
/hɪmˈself/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.25 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
pron
The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
pron
The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Example Sentences
- "He injured himself."
- "Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines."
- "One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia."
- "He was injured himself."
- "Therefore the Lord himſelfe ſhal giue you a ſigne:[…]."
- "The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɪmˈself/
Inflected Forms
Phrases
every man for himself
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
you ally'all you guys yous
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete