myself

pronoun

1. 1

   Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

   I taught myself.

   (I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.

   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.”

   “If you were a little bit kinder to yourself today, or if you gained insight, if you had an ‘Aha’ like, ‘Oh, man, I really do talk to myself the way my mom talked to me,’ or you identify a childhood wound … all of that is a form of reparenting,” she said.

2. 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. 3

   In my normal state of body or mind.

   I feel like myself.

4. 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.

5. 5

   archaicI (as the subject of a verb).

   My wife and myself want to go on vacation.

   And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land[…].

   Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.

6. 6

   my name is...

   Myself John.