selfish

Meanings

Adjective

• concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; - Maria Weston Chapman
  • "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"

Adj

• Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
• Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
• Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
• Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene; best understood as existing to preserve and replicate itself in competition with other entities at the same level of existence, rather than at the level of the individual or population containing it.

Synonyms

egoistic, egotistic, egotistical, greedy, self-centered

Antonyms

altruistic, otherish, philanthropic, selfless, unselfish

Related Words

self-serving