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to oneself

to oneself adjective: tending not to interact with others; introverted; reserved.

Adjective

to oneself (comparative more to oneself, superlative most to oneself)

  1. (informal) Tending not to interact with others; introverted; reserved.
    • John was very shy and to himself when he went to school that day.
    • At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that...1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75

Forms of to oneself

comparativemore to oneself
superlativemost to oneself
alternative formto-oneself

Origin of to oneself

From keep to oneself.

Questions about to oneself

What does to oneself mean?
To oneself means tending not to interact with others; introverted; reserved.
What part of speech is to oneself?
To oneself is an adjective.

Words near to oneself in the dictionary

  1. to one's mind
  2. to one's name
  3. to one's own cheek
  4. to one's rescue
  5. to one's way of thinking
  6. to oneself
  7. to order
  8. to overflowing
  9. to perfection
  10. to pieces
  11. to put it another way

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