Self
/sɛlf/
Self is a noun, adjective and verb with 6 senses listed below, each with examples where available, plus synonyms and a word game to make it stick.
Definition
noun
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One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
“one's true self; one's better self; one's former self”
- The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
adjective
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Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
“a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood”
- Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
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Antonyms
nonself outcross
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