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WHAT DOES BESIDE ONESELF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of beside oneself in the English dictionary

The definition of beside oneself in the dictionary is often foll by with overwhelmed; overwrought.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BESIDE ONESELF

besetment
besetter
besetting
beshadow
beshame
beshine
beshout
beshrew
beshroud
beside
beside the point
besides
besiege
besiegement
besieger
besiegingly
besigh
besit
Beslan
beslave

WORDS THAT END LIKE BESIDE ONESELF

do well for oneself
enjoy oneself
expose oneself
express oneself
fall over oneself
find oneself
full of oneself
give a bad account of oneself
give a good account of oneself
himself
keep oneself to oneself
keep to oneself
kill oneself
make a pig of oneself
make an exhibition of oneself
not know where to put oneself
oneself
present oneself
relieve oneself
take something upon oneself
turn in on oneself

Synonyms and antonyms of beside oneself in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «beside oneself» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BESIDE ONESELF

Find out the translation of beside oneself to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beside oneself from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beside oneself» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自己身边
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

al lado de uno mismo
570 millions of speakers

English

beside oneself
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपने आप के पास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بجانب نفسه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вне себя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ao lado de si mesmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিজের পাশে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à côté de soi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Selain diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

außer sich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自分の横に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자신 의 옆에
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jejere dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bên cạnh mình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன்னைத்தானே தவிர
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वतःच्या बाजूला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yanında yanında
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accanto a se stessi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obok siebie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нестямі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

alături de sine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκτός από τον εαυτό του
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

langs jouself
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bredvid sig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ved siden av seg selv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beside oneself

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BESIDE ONESELF»

The term «beside oneself» is normally little used and occupies the 138.253 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BESIDE ONESELF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beside oneself» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beside oneself» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beside oneself

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BESIDE ONESELF»

Discover the use of beside oneself in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beside oneself and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stanley Cavell
It is from Thoreau, and here it is: "With thinking we may be beside oneself in a sane sense. Next to us the grandest laws are continually being executed." I am impelled further to ask: beside oneself: What is there besides oneself? What also is it ...
Richard Eldridge, 2003
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A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms ...
beside oneself: I was out of myself with emotions. How can you call 911 for an emergency and be put on hold? Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase above oneself—used of smb. who is self-important, thinking too ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2010
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Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's ...
Kant E126, 1764–8? 1769? end of 1769–autumn 1770? 1776–8?: “Not subordinated to the will.” Kant E127, 1776–8? 1780–9??: “Stunned./put into involuntary and vigorous motion, beside oneself, the former is impotence, the latter (crossed ...
Alexander Baumgarten, Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers, 2013
4
Undoing Gender
These essays deepen her treatment of issues introduced by earlier work on the relationship between power and the body, the meaning & purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship.
Judith Butler, 2004
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新英语教程: 全一册. 语法
There are beautiful flowers and grass beside the river. (2) = in comparison with fd ...... ffitt. WP : Our building is a dwarf beside theirs. - My achievements are nothing beside yours. beside oneself with joy beside oneself with anger beside oneself ...
孙志成, 1996
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A Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament: With an ...
In these idea.s_(to jest, to be beside oneself, to be foohsh) there seems to lie merely light-minded acting devoid of consciousness, definite will, or intention. Pih . (r-edupl.) has been preserved only in Hithp. Iliwn -.1};-or;-“.1 (rm -'-.r,éq'21?
Julius Fürst, 1867
7
Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great
Ecstasy strictly means being out of one's mind, or “being beside oneself.” [ excessus mentis] Now, we can think of two possible reasons for this condition: one is fear; the other is the contemplation of heavenly things [intentio ad superna] so ...
Thomas L. Humphries, 2013
8
The Synonym Finder
glad, delighted, pleased, gratified, wnf. tickled or tickled pink; happy, blessed, contented, plissful; jubilant, exultant, gleeful, exhilarated, en- Ihused, excited, animated, sparkling; elated, over- toyed, beside oneself with joy, thrilled, in seventh ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
9
A Phraseological English-Latin Dictionary ...
Apud, juxta (see near) ; i. e. in addition to, prater. — Besides this, ad hoc, ad naee (Cic., Liv.) ; i. e. except, prater. — Beside oneself, amens. — Beside oneself for joy, im- potcus hetitiae. Liv. If they conquer they are beside themselves with joy.
Charles Duke Yonge, 1855
10
The Logic of the Lure
63 As an aesthetics of life, this divesting of interiority, identity, and subjectivity — in a word this ascetic form of being-beside-oneself — is a relation to the Outside, and this I would argue is the place of ethics. Being beside oneself is "suddenly to  ...
John Paul Ricco, 2002

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BESIDE ONESELF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beside oneself is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What makes Catholicism a happy religion
It's interesting to note that ecstasy comes from two Greek words ek and stasis, which in English means to “stand beside oneself.” And why not? «Rappler, Aug 14»
2
Argento Chamber Ensemble at Austrian Cultural Forum
In Aaron Einbond's “Beside Oneself,” for viola and live electronics, the violist Stephanie Griffin created a more alluring palette of sounds, ... «New York Times, May 14»
3
As the 'Screw' turns: Josh Alan Friedman recalls his long tenure …
i would hope so, unless being beside oneself can have a large gap. Geez….. Anonymous on December 19, 2013 at 1:59 pm said: Come now. «Dallas Morning News, Dec 13»
4
After Yolanda, beware the wrath of a woman
It's time to snap back. Be beside oneself. Ticked off. Enraged. And show them that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. – Rappler.com ... «Rappler, Nov 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Beside oneself [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/beside-oneself>. May 2024 ».
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