'Selfish' definitions:
Definition of 'selfish'
From: WordNet
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 [ant: unselfish]
Definition of 'Selfish'
From: GCIDE
- Selfish \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. [1913 Webster]
- They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
- In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. [1913 Webster]
- Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. --Fleming. [1913 Webster]