itself
/ɪtˈsɛlf/ pronoun
Also a form of herself himself
Forms it himself herself themself themselves it self it selfe
- pronoun (reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject “When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).”
- pronoun (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate “The door itself is quite heavy.”
- pronoun (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “itself”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details