Meaning of SELFISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'selfish
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| | Definition: | | [adj] concerned chiefly or only with yourself; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman |
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| | Synonyms: | | begrudging, egotistic, egotistical, envious, grudging, narcissistic, self-loving, self-seeking, self-serving, stingy, ungenerous |
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| | Antonyms: | | unselfish | | |
| | See Also: | | egoistic, inconsiderate | |
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| | Definition: | | \Self"ish\, a.
1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's
own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the
expense, of those of others.
They judge of things according to their own private
appetites and selfish passions. --Cudworth.
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. --Keble.
2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of
human action are derived from love of self.
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.
--Fleming.
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