forget oneself

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic) to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

misbehave act up

Examples

To forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. Leo Tolstoy

Close letter words and terms

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