myself
//maɪˈsɛlf//
Definitions
1.Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
2.Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
- I myself have witnessed the event.
3.In my normal state of body or mind.
- I have enjoyed myself to the full.
- I wish that I could do that myself.
- I don't want to walk home by myself.
4.Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
- Give the ball to John or myself.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #527
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self.