Yourself
pron1
Honorific Honorific alternative letter-case form of yourself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
yourself
pronalso spelled Yourself/jəˈsɛlf/ · /jɔːˈsɛlf/
Etymology From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
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Pronoun Your own self (singular).
- Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
- After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
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- As an adult, you would find yourself being a people pleaser with the men in your life –– afraid to be rejected and emotionally abandoned.2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN:
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Emphatic, Pronoun You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
- You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
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Ireland, Especially, Proscribed You (singular); even when "you" has not been used previously; see usage notes.
- I spoke with yourself last in February.
- No one understands me like yourself.
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- My colleague and yourself are invited to the conference.
- I only spoke to my lawyer and yourself about the issue.
- Derived terms
- because you touch yourself at night, buy yourself a hat, check yourself before you wreck yourself, dig yourself, do-it-yourself, do it yourself, don't keep a dog and bark yourself, don't knock yourself out, fuck yourself, go chase yourself, go screw yourself, go shit yourself, hello yourself, and see how you like it, keep telling yourself that, keep yourself safe, make yourself at home, please yourself, stab yourself and pass the dagger, take care of
- Related terms
55 terms
Ime, me, myselfmemysen, mine, mymineme, we, us, ourselvesourselfoursen, oursourn, our, you, yourselfyoursen, yoursyourn, your, thou, thee, thyselftheeselfthysen, thine, thythine, youye, yourselves, you ally'all you guys yous, y'allselves, all yours y'all's you guys' your guys', all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys', he, him, himselfhisselfhissen, hishisn, his, she, her, herselfhersen, hershern, ithit, itselfhitself, itshis, itshishits, they, them, themself, themselves, theirs, their, one, oneself, –, one's, themhem, 'em, themselvestheirsen, theirstheirn, The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun, including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete, archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.