'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]

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