Yourself vs Copycat - What's the difference?
yourself | copycat |
(reflexive) Your own self (singular).
You (singular); .
Your usual, normal, or true self.
(informal) One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.
A criminal who imitates the crimes of another.
To act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 3, author=Janet Maslin, title=His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer, work=New York Times
, passage=In a genre that is rife with copycatting , Ms. Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground. }}
As nouns the difference between yourself and copycat
is that yourself is your usual, normal, or true self while copycat is (informal) one who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.As a pronoun yourself
is (reflexive) your own self (singular).As an adjective copycat is
; unoriginal.As a verb copycat is
to act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.yourself
English
Pronoun
- Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself .
- You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(yourselves)- After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
copycat
English
Alternative forms
* copy cat * copy-catNoun
(en noun)- a copycat strangler
Verb
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