SELF-INTERESTED

Definition: SELF-INTERESTED

SELF-INTERESTED

Adjective

1. Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SELF-INTERESTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Selfishness	Adjective: selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: SELF-INTERESTED

English words defined with "SELF-INTERESTED": By-view. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Ecuador	The result is that requests made are perceived to be more legitimate and less self-interested because the governing officials of the provinces collaboratively determine their content. (references)
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"SELF-INTERESTED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SELF-INTERESTED" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	65	41,645

Language		Translations for "SELF-INTERESTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		baatsugtig (selfish). (various references)

Albanian		egoistik (egocentric, egoistic). (various references)

Bulgarian		користен (interested, mercenary, venal). (various references)

Chinese		自私 (self-absorbed, selfish, self-serving). (various references)

Danish		egoistisk (selfish). (various references)

Dutch		zelfzuchtig (selfish), egoïstisch (selfish), baatzuchtig (selfish). (various references)

Esperanto		egoista (selfish), egoisma (selfish). (various references)

French		qui cherche son avantage personnel, intéressé. (various references)

Frisian		eigenikkich (selfish). (various references)

Greek		ιδιοτελήσ (self-seeking). (various references)

Hungarian		önzõ (assertive, egocentric, egoist, egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeking). (various references)

Italian		egoistico (selfish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		現金 (cash, mercenary, ready money), さまざまな理�"�から (anguishedly, for various reasons, game-ending home run, mean, selfish, self-seeking, sorrowfully). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さもしい (mean, selfish, self-seeking), �'�"き�" (ban, cash, interdiction, mercenary, ready money, strict prohibition). (various references)

Korean		이기 (selfish, self-serving). (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-interestedsay

Russian		корыстолюбивый (avaricious, avariciously). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koristoljubiv (greedy, self-seeking, worldly-minded). (various references)

Spanish		egoísta (egoist, egoistic, self indulgent, selfish, self-seeking). (various references)

Turkish		bencíl (selfish). (various references)

Ukranian		корисливий (accumulative, appropriate, avaricious, gainful, interested, mammonish, mercenary, money-grubbing, moneymaking, self-seeking, sordid). (various references)

Vietnamese		vụ lợi (mercenary), ích kỷ (dog, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, selfish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "SELF-INTERESTED" (pronounced 'Self`-in"ter*est*ed'): Argus-eyed, Bottled, Bottle-nosed, Bowl-legged, Bracted, Brambled, Brandied, Brass-visaged, Brawned, Brazen-browed, Brazenfaced, Breaded, Brecciated, Flowery-kirtled, Fluorated, Fred, Gallied, Palfreyed, Palmatilobed, Palmiped, Palped, Pandiculated, Paned, Panicled, Panniered, Panoplied, Pansied, Papized, Paradised, Parallelopiped, Parapeted, Parqueted, Parsoned, Party-coated, Pated, Patent-hammered, Patibulated, Pattened, Peach-colored, Pearl-eyed, Pear-shaped, Peckled, Ped, Pedestaled, Pediceled, Peduncled, Pelleted, Pennached, Penninerved, Pensived. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: fertileness.
	-4 letters: enfettered, fenderless, friendless, interested, reenlisted, slenderest, tenderfeet.
	-5 letters: deerflies, deferents, detesters, dissenter, enfetters, enlistees, enlisters, eternised, eternises, fetidness, fleetness, flittered, frisettes, infesters, insetters, interests, leistered, listeners, redefines, reediness, reenlists, resettled, resettles, residents, selenides, selenites, silentest, sleetiest, steeliest, sternites, teensiest, teentsier, tenderest, tendresse, teredines, tiredness, trendiest, triteness.
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