Definition for Selfish:

• Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

Synonyms for Selfish:

• adj.

  •avaricious (adjective)
  • hoarding,
  • miserly,
  • money-grubbing,
  • acquisitive,
  • monopolistic,
  • Cadging,
  • venal,
  • rapacious.
  •despicable (adjective)
  • shabby.
  •individualistic (adjective)
  • individualistic.
  •little (adjective)
  • hidebound.
  •mean (adjective)
  • niggard,
  • mingy.
  •misanthropic (adjective)
  • anti-social,
  • unsociable,
  • inhospitable,
  • inhumane.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • small-minded,
  • little.
  •selfish (adjective)
  • hoggish,
  • narcissistic,
  • self-centered,
  • self-occupied,
  • egotistic,
  • vain.

• n.

  •
  • narrow-minded,
  • prejudiced,
  • narrow.
  •
  • self,
  • king.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • grabby,
  • parasitic,
  • self-absorbed,
  • egomaniacal,
  • cynical,
  • voracious.
  •
  • thoughtful,
  • sweet.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gluttonous,
  • immoderate,
  • narcistic,
  • hypocritical,
  • callous,
  • epicure,
  • near-sighted,
  • humble,
  • profit-oriented,
  • Gold-digging,
  • selfishness,
  • unappreciative,
  • penurious,
  • self-contained,
  • self-obsessed,
  • indifferent,
  • short-sighted,
  • fornication,
  • contemptible,
  • self-centred,
  • intemperate,
  • self-pleasing,
  • intolerant,
  • self-admiring,
  • close-minded,
  • hireling,
  • self-infatuated,
  • meagre,
  • single-minded,
  • filthy,
  • self-indulgent,
  • Gormandizing,
  • expedient,
  • egotism,
  • dissipation,
  • knave,
  • envious,
  • unimaginative,
  • Fortune-hunting,
  • measly,
  • penny-pinching,
  • insufficient,
  • self-sufficient,
  • Toad-eating,
  • stinting,
  • inadequate,
  • dissolution,
  • obsequious,
  • calculated,
  • debauchery,
  • undignified,
  • rebel,
  • Self-complacent,
  • despicable,
  • out for number one,
  • modest,
  • unthankful,
  • self-oriented,
  • egoist,
  • bandit,
  • low,
  • Debauching,
  • cowardly,
  • straitened,
  • Ungiving,
  • taking advantage,
  • poor,
  • materialistic,
  • ambitious,
  • heedless,
  • rogue,
  • scanty,
  • sensual,
  • rascal,
  • Toadying,
  • evil,
  • tight,
  • skinflint,
  • be selfish,
  • glutton,
  • Egoistically,
  • small-scale,
  • sycophantic,
  • epicurean,
  • self-important,
  • exploitive,
  • unfeeling,
  • opportunist,
  • unprincipled,
  • churl,
  • skimpy,
  • egotistically,
  • Dissipating,
  • rigid,
  • begrudging,
  • trifling,
  • unthoughtful,
  • base,
  • insignificant,
  • personalistic,
  • self-,
  • ungrateful,
  • unkind,
  • egoism,
  • myopic,
  • cheap,
  • insatiable,
  • self-preoccupied,
  • egotist,
  • unpretentious,
  • edacious,
  • contracted,
  • negligible,
  • traitor,
  • profligate,
  • Self-devoted,
  • subjective,
  • overindulgent,
  • petty,
  • greed,
  • grudging,
  • feather one's nest,
  • subservient,
  • remote,
  • brown-nosing,
  • Time-serving,
  • hedonistic,
  • solipsistic,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • illiberal,
  • on the take,
  • close,
  • cold,
  • adultery,
  • close-fisted,
  • Dissocial,
  • villain,
  • piddling,
  • self-regarding,
  • scoundrel,
  • Narcissine,
  • rude,
  • miser,
  • pleasure-seeking,
  • licentious,
  • indulge oneself,
  • self-aggrandizing,
  • on the make,
  • careerist,
  • near,
  • sybaritic,
  • self-gratifying,
  • audacious,
  • unyielding,
  • licentiousness,
  • tightfisted,
  • extravagant,
  • dissolute,
  • selfishly,
  • insensitive,
  • machiavellian,
  • autistic,
  • self-loving.

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.