Synonyms for selfish
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Egoistic — having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or…
egoistic, self-centered US, self-centred UK, self-seeking, self-serving, greedy, egotistical, egocentric, self-interested, self-absorbed, egotistic, self-indulgent, mean, self-minded, covetous, egoistical, individualistic, ungenerous, mercenary, illiberal, sordid, narrow, hoggish
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
Related words
- Word family
- selfishly selfishness self-serving
- Is a kind of
- egotistical egotistic full of oneself excessive immoral
From weakest to strongest
From the opposite of selfish, on the left, to its strongest synonyms, on the right.
Example sentences
- greedy Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
- egoistic You deserve to lose everything, for being so egoistic.
By length
- 4 letters
- mean1
- 5 letters
- small1
- 6 letters
- little2, narrow2, greedy2, sordid2
- 7 letters
- hoggish
- 8 letters
- egoistic, covetous
- 9 letters
- mercenary4, illiberal, egotistic
- 10 letters
- egocentric4, ungenerous, egoistical
- 11 letters
- egotistical5
- 12 letters
- uncharitable
- 15 letters
- individualistic7
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (little2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- égoïste
- Italiano
- egoista
- Deutsch
- egoistisch