SELFISH

selfish

(adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; “Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights”- Maria Weston Chapman

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

selfish (comparative more selfish or selfisher, superlative most selfish or selfishest)

Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.

Usage notes

• Said of people and their thoughts and actions, such as motives, desires, acts.

Synonyms

• egoistic

• egotistic

• egotistical

• self-centered

• greedy

Antonyms

• altruistic

• philanthropic

• selfless

• unselfish

Anagrams

• Fishels, hisself

Source: Wiktionary

Self"ish, a.

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)

Definition: Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition