What is another word for selfish?
Pronunciation:
[ sˈɛlfɪʃ], [ sˈɛlfɪʃ], [ s_ˈɛ_l_f_ɪ_ʃ]
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Similar words for selfish:
- all (adjective)
- avaricious (adjective)
- covetous (adjective)
- despicable (adjective)
- egocentric (adjective)
- exclusive (adjective)
- grasping (adjective)
- greedy (adjective)
- inconsiderate (adjective)
- individualistic (adjective)
- little (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- mercenary (adjective)
- misanthropic (adjective)
- narrow-minded (adjective)
- obscured (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- parsimonious (adjective)
- pinching (adjective)
- pompous (adjective)
- puffed-up (adjective)
- sectional (adjective)
- self-centered (adjective)
- self-involved (adjective)
- self-seeking (adjective)
- self-serving (adjective)
- selfish (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- sordid (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- thoughtless (adjective)
- ulterior (adjective)
- uncharitable (adjective)
- ungenerous (adjective)
- ungrateful (adjective)
- unscrupulous (adjective)
- unthinking (adjective)
- unthoughtful (adjective)
- worldly (adjective)
- begrudging (noun)
- egotistic (noun)
- envious (noun)
- grudging (noun)
- narcissistic (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Selfish:
adj.
• all (adjective) • avaricious (adjective)- miserly,
- venal,
- monopolistic,
- money-grubbing,
- moneygrubbing,
- acquisitive,
- pleonectic,
- rapacious,
- hoarding,
- Cadging.
- more yearning,
- most grudging,
- more prehensile,
- greeneyed,
- more swinish,
- green eyed,
- more ensurient,
- more grudging,
- most swinish,
- most ensurient,
- most yearning,
- more hogging,
- most hogging,
- most prehensile,
- close fisted.
- more self-concerned,
- most megalomaniac,
- self concerned,
- self-loving,
- selfinterested,
- stuckup,
- most self-loving,
- most selfloving,
- more self-interested,
- more selfinterested,
- most self-concerned,
- self indulgent,
- self absorbed,
- more self concerned,
- most self-interested,
- most selfinterested,
- self interested,
- more megalomaniac,
- wrapped oneself,
- more self-loving,
- more self interested,
- selfindulgent,
- most selfconcerned,
- wrapped up oneself,
- selfconcerned,
- most individualist,
- selfloving,
- self loving,
- selfabsorbed,
- more selfconcerned,
- most self concerned,
- wrapped in oneself,
- most self loving,
- more self loving,
- most self interested,
- more individualist,
- more selfloving.
- dis-criminative,
- more circumscribed,
- more exclusionary,
- in-dependent,
- restrictive,
- most exclusory,
- upper crust,
- dis criminative,
- un divided,
- most circumscribed,
- most exclusionary,
- in dependent,
- un-divided,
- more cliquish,
- more exclusory,
- most cliquish.
- more extorting,
- more niggardly,
- penny pinching,
- penurious,
- more usurious,
- most usurious,
- most niggardly,
- most extorting.
- most craving,
- most tight fisted,
- most gobbling,
- more gormandizing,
- hoggish,
- in satiable,
- most insatiate,
- more guzzling,
- more tight-fisted,
- more gobbling,
- more gulping,
- most gulping,
- most guzzling,
- in satiate,
- in-satiate,
- in-temperate,
- more tight fisted,
- edacious,
- in-satiable,
- most tight-fisted,
- tight fisted,
- more ravening,
- more esurient,
- most ravening,
- most gormandizing,
- more insatiate,
- in temperate,
- most esurient,
- more craving.
- un gracious,
- un-ceremonious,
- un kind,
- in-cautious,
- in-considerate,
- in delicate,
- in tolerant,
- in-tolerant,
- in-delicate,
- un kindest,
- un ceremonious,
- in considerate,
- in cautious,
- un-kindest,
- dis-courteous,
- un-kinder,
- un-kind,
- un kinder,
- dis courteous,
- un-gracious.
- esurient,
- exclusive,
- slummy,
- wrapped up with oneself,
- thoughtless,
- insatiate,
- worldly wise,
- misanthropic,
- greedy,
- uptown,
- grasping,
- unconscientious,
- bribable,
- stuck up,
- exploitative,
- Exclusionary,
- usurious,
- sordid,
- self-involved,
- scummier,
- unthinking,
- ravening,
- swinish,
- swank,
- worldly,
- socially correct,
- egoistical,
- casuistic,
- pompous,
- pennypinching,
- ulterior,
- small,
- Exclusory,
- stuck on oneself,
- Self-interested,
- egocentric,
- self-serving,
- uncharitable,
- unreasoning,
- Despisable,
- self-seeking,
- mercenary,
- prehensile,
- hardfisted,
- egotistical,
- megalomaniac,
- self-concerned,
- ungenerous,
- cliquish,
- having a swelled head,
- ensurient,
- parsimonious,
- piggish,
- stingy,
- covetous,
- inconsiderate,
- on ego trip,
- scurvy,
- inward-looking,
- puffed-up,
- highfaluting,
- opportunistic,
- low-down,
- brutish,
- niggardly,
- mean,
- tight-fisted,
- unscrupulous,
- lowdown,
- avaricious,
- slummier,
- power-loving,
- on an ego trip,
- sectional,
- egoistic,
- wrapped up in oneself,
- been around,
- possessive.
- high flown,
- more highfaluting,
- over bearing,
- highflown,
- portentous,
- up pity,
- puffy,
- Over-bearing,
- up-pity,
- over-blown,
- self important,
- high mighty,
- selfimportant,
- most highfaluting,
- over blown,
- pre sumptuous.
- selfcentered,
- more grandstanding,
- stuck oneself,
- wrapped with oneself,
- most inward looking,
- grand standing,
- most know it all,
- more inwardlooking,
- grand-standing,
- more know it all,
- self-centered,
- more inward looking,
- most inwardlooking,
- inward looking,
- self centered,
- self sufficient,
- most know-it-all,
- more inward-looking,
- more know-it-all,
- know it all,
- selfsufficient,
- most inward-looking,
- most grandstanding,
- having swelled head,
- inwardlooking.
- un worthy,
- in glorious,
- un-worthiest,
- un-worthy,
- most despisable,
- dis graceful,
- most lowdown,
- more despisable,
- dis honorable,
- more low down,
- scummy,
- in-glorious,
- most low-down,
- dis-graceful,
- un worthier,
- un worthiest,
- scummiest,
- low down,
- more low-down,
- dis-reputable,
- un-worthier,
- most low down,
- more lowdown,
- dis reputable,
- dis-honorable.
- de-generate,
- de graded,
- scurvier,
- un-cleanest,
- de-graded,
- un cleaner,
- slumest,
- un cleanliest,
- un-cleanly,
- un-cleanliest,
- slumer,
- un-cleanlier,
- un clean,
- un cleanest,
- scurviest,
- slummiest,
- un cleanlier,
- uncleanly,
- de generate,
- un-cleaner,
- un cleanly.
- more exploitative,
- most casuistic,
- un conscionable,
- un scrupulous,
- dis-honest,
- most exploitative,
- twofaced,
- un fairest,
- un-fairest,
- two faced,
- de-grading,
- under hand,
- de grading,
- under-handed,
- un-fair,
- un-fairer,
- un-scrupulous,
- under handed,
- un fair,
- un conscientious,
- under-hand,
- un-conscientious,
- most unconscientious,
- un-conscionable,
- more unconscientious,
- more casuistic,
- un fairer,
- dis honest.
- un wiser,
- un-wiser,
- un-conscious,
- un conscious,
- in advertent,
- in-advertent,
- un-tactful,
- un meant,
- un wise,
- most unreasoning,
- un intended,
- un-premeditated,
- un-reasoning,
- more blundering,
- more unreasoning,
- most blundering,
- un thinking,
- napping,
- more napping,
- un-wisest,
- un-meant,
- un tactful,
- most napping,
- un-thinking,
- un-intended,
- un reasoning,
- more brutish,
- un wisest,
- most brutish.
n.
• begrudging (noun) • egotistic (noun) • envious (noun) • grudging (noun) • narcissistic (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- thoughtful,
- sweet.
- temper,
- man,
- living,
- ignore,
- character,
- relationship,
- attitude,
- person,
- point of view,
- relation,
- nature,
- opinion,
- creature.
- epicurean,
- subservient,
- villain,
- skinflint,
- miser,
- egoist,
- licentious,
- base,
- Gormandizing,
- overindulgent,
- on the take,
- hypocritical,
- ambitious for self,
- sycophantic,
- small-scale,
- epicure,
- careerist,
- unyielding,
- single-minded,
- scoundrel,
- insatiable,
- unfeeling,
- unthoughtful,
- short-sighted,
- rascal,
- callous,
- self-important,
- out for number one,
- expedient,
- skimpy,
- indulge oneself,
- penny-pinching,
- calculated,
- profligate,
- Self-devoted,
- licentiousness,
- subjective,
- unkind,
- Dissocial,
- intolerant,
- hedonistic,
- insufficient,
- sensual,
- evil,
- bandit,
- intemperate,
- insignificant,
- self-regarding,
- negligible,
- despicable,
- opportunist,
- Fortune-hunting,
- churl,
- rebel,
- inadequate,
- hireling,
- insensitive,
- humble,
- selfishness,
- autistic,
- rogue,
- self-pleasing,
- greed,
- solipsistic,
- Debauching,
- close-minded,
- narcistic,
- cold,
- tight,
- ungrateful,
- unimaginative,
- knave,
- low,
- brown-nosing,
- remote,
- heedless,
- close,
- Gold-digging,
- scanty,
- Narcissine,
- glutton,
- modest,
- cowardly,
- Toad-eating,
- straitened,
- filthy,
- dissolution,
- illiberal,
- myopic,
- near-sighted,
- Time-serving,
- Dissipating,
- rude,
- immoderate,
- self-aggrandizing,
- Ungiving,
- meagre,
- Toadying,
- self-,
- boot-licking,
- self-indulgent,
- debauchery,
- obsequious,
- close-fisted,
- taking advantage,
- self-contained,
- selfishly,
- exploitive,
- tightfisted,
- self-infatuated,
- gluttonous,
- egoism,
- unsatisfactory,
- self-oriented,
- Self-complacent,
- trifling,
- unthankful,
- stinting,
- unprincipled,
- be selfish,
- egotistically,
- poor,
- egotism,
- ambitious,
- fornication,
- profit-oriented,
- contemptible,
- self-preoccupied,
- adultery,
- on the make,
- cheap,
- machiavellian,
- indifferent,
- sybaritic,
- Egoistically,
- egotist,
- unappreciative,
- cheese-paring,
- feather one's nest,
- self-sufficient,
- dissipation,
- undignified,
- rigid,
- dissolute,
- pleasure-seeking,
- materialistic,
- self-gratifying,
- extravagant,
- contracted,
- self-obsessed,
- measly,
- piddling,
- self-admiring,
- traitor,
- unpretentious,
- audacious,
- petty,
- self-centred,
- near,
- personalistic.
How to use "Selfish" in context?
Selfishness is defined as an inclination or habit of looking out for one's own interest rather than that of others. Selfishness can be harmful to oneself and others, as it can lead to a disregard for others' interests and feelings, as well as an egoistic focus on one's own needs.
Selfishness can be observable in a variety of behaviors and attitudes. For example, some people are often self- Promoting, insisting on their own point of view even when it is not warranted or beneficial to the situation, and putting themselves first even when it is not in the best interests of others.
Paraphrases for Selfish:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
egocentric, egoistic, egotistical, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, Self-interested.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
selfishness.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
greedy, narrow, self-involved, self-obsessed.
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Adjective
Homophones for Selfish:
- schoolboyish, salvific, slavish, slowpoke, self-abuse, Sloppy Joe, slovak, slippage, syllabise, slovakia, syllepsis, silvex, selvage, schoolbook, solfeggio, solfege, shellfish, slops, sexual abuse, syllabic, sailfish, school bus, syllabus, scolopax, syllabize, shelf ice, schoolbag, slavic, salvage, slip coach.
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