Thesaurus: selfish
Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
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Definitions
- a. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
- a. Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
- adj. concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others
- 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble. 2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.
- Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human actionare derived from love of self.Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.
- j:100 a. concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others