What is another word for selfish?
542 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ sˈɛlfɪʃ], [ sˈɛlfɪʃ], [ s_ˈɛ_l_f_ɪ_ʃ]Table of Contents
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)
- 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 synonyms
- other relevant words
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.
- 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)Other synonyms:
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- thoughtful,
- sweet.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
self-serving, egotistical, self-seeking, Self-interested, self-centered, self-centred, egoistic, egocentric, self-absorbed.
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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, self-involved, self-obsessed, narrow.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Selfish:
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adj.
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all
unselfish.
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thinking only of oneself
caring, kind, benevolent.
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Other antonyms:
greathearted, humanitarian, magnanimous, self-forgetting, diffident, selfless.
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all
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.