Synonyms for Selfish:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • selfish.
  •avaricious (adjective)
  • miserly,
  • venal,
  • monopolistic,
  • money-grubbing,
  • moneygrubbing,
  • acquisitive,
  • pleonectic,
  • rapacious,
  • hoarding,
  • Cadging.
  •covetous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •despicable (adjective)
  • shabby.
  •egocentric (adjective)
  • 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.
  •exclusive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •grasping (adjective)
  • more extorting,
  • more niggardly,
  • penny pinching,
  • penurious,
  • more usurious,
  • most usurious,
  • most niggardly,
  • most extorting.
  •greedy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inconsiderate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •individualistic (adjective)
  • individualistic.
  •little (adjective)
  • least,
  • hidebound.
  •mean (adjective)
  • niggard,
  • scrimpy,
  • mingy.
  •mercenary (adjective)
  • most bribable,
  • un ethical,
  • un principled,
  • un-principled,
  • more bribable,
  • un-ethical.
  •misanthropic (adjective)
  • inhumane,
  • unsociable,
  • anti-social,
  • misanthropical,
  • inhospitable,
  • eremitic.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • small-minded,
  • little.
  •obscured (adjective)
  • most cover,
  • more cover.
  •parsimonious (adjective)
  • more skinflint,
  • most tightwad,
  • most skinflint,
  • tightwad,
  • more tightwad.
  •pinching (adjective)
  • hard fisted.
  •pompous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • puffed up,
  • puffedup,
  • hoity toity,
  • hoitytoity.
  •sectional (adjective)
  • factional,
  • more factional,
  • more separatist,
  • most separatist,
  • separatist,
  • most factional.
  •self-centered (adjective)
  • 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.
  •self-involved (adjective)
  • inner-directed,
  • obsessive.
  •self-seeking (adjective)
  • selfseeking,
  • self seeking.
  •self-serving (adjective)
  • selfserving,
  • self serving.
  •selfish (adjective)
  • self-occupied,
  • vain.
  •shabby (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sordid (adjective)
  • 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.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • Pinching,
  • ironfisted,
  • pennywise,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • Pinchpenny.
  •thoughtless (adjective)
  • asocial,
  • Hot-headed,
  • unheeding.
  •ulterior (adjective)
  • Undivulged,
  • Shrouded,
  • implied,
  • Obscured.
  •uncharitable (adjective)
  • unsympathizing.
  •ungenerous (adjective)
  • un-generous,
  • un generous.
  •ungrateful (adjective)
  • ingrate,
  • faultfinding.
  •unscrupulous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unthinking (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unthoughtful (adjective)
  • un-thoughtful,
  • un thoughtful,
  • dis regardful,
  • dis-regardful.
  •worldly (adjective)
  • more power loving,
  • more uptown,
  • most power loving,
  • more powerloving,
  • dis enchanted,
  • powerloving,
  • dis-enchanted,
  • more opportunistic,
  • up town,
  • most powerloving,
  • power loving,
  • more power-loving,
  • up-town,
  • most opportunistic,
  • most power-loving,
  • most uptown.

• n.

  •
  • narrow-minded,
  • prejudiced,
  • narrow.
  •
  • self,
  • king.
  •begrudging (noun)
  • begrudging.
  •egotistic (noun)
  • egotistic.
  •envious (noun)
  • envious.
  •grudging (noun)
  • grudging.
  •narcissistic (noun)
  • narcissistic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • grabby,
  • parasitic,
  • self-absorbed,
  • egomaniacal,
  • cynical,
  • voracious.
  •
  • thoughtful,
  • sweet.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Selfish:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    self-serving, egotistical, self-seeking, Self-interested, self-centered, self-centred, egoistic, egocentric, self-absorbed.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    selfishness.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    greedy, self-involved, self-obsessed, narrow.

Antonyms for Selfish:

• adj.

  • all
    unselfish.
  • thinking only of oneself
    caring, kind, benevolent.
  • Other antonyms:
    greathearted, humanitarian, magnanimous, self-forgetting, diffident, selfless.

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.