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Definitions: Egoist |
EgoistNoun1. A conceited and self-centered person. 2. A self-centered person with little regard for others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "egoist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: EgoistSynonyms: egocentric (n), egotist (n), swellhead (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Selfishness | Time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Egoist |
| Etymologies containing "egoist": Egotist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Egoist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (egoist, egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking), German (egoist, egotist), Norwegian (egoist), Romanian (cavalier, egoist, egoistic, egoistical, mean, selfish, self-pleasing, self-seeker, self-seeking), Swedish (egoist), Turkish (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotist, egotistical, selfish, self-seeker). |
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Screenplays | When you're an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional. (Metropolitan; writing credit: Whit Stillman) | |
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| "Egoist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Egoist" is used about 21 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
egoist | 17 |
egoist meredith | 3 |
egoist ethical | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egoist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | egoist (egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Arabic | محب اللذات (self-loving), المغرور (bumptious, coxcomb, puppy, upstart, wise guy, wiseacre), المتبجح (boaster, bouncer, brag, cracker, egotist, popinjay, windbag), الأناني (egotist), أناني (asocial, egocentric, egoistic, greedy, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | егоист (hog, self-seeker). (various references) | |
Czech | sobec (egotist, hog). (various references) | |
French | égoïste (egoistic). (various references) | |
German | egoist (egotist). (various references) | |
Greek | εγωιστήσ (egotism). (various references) | |
Hebrew | או"ב את עצמו, א'ויסט, א'ואיסט (selfish), א וכיי (egocentric, egotist). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egoista (egocentric, egotist), önző ember (hog). (various references) | |
Indonesian | egois (egoistic, selfish), orang yang egois, mementingkan diri sendiri. (various references) | |
Italian | egoista (selfish, selfish person, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 主我主義者 , 利己主義者 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅがしゅぎしゃ, り"しゅぎしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 이기주의자 (self-seeker). (various references) | |
Manx | froaishagh (assumer, brag, bragging, egoistical, lofty, swanker, swanky). (various references) | |
Norwegian | egoist. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egoistay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | egotista (egotistic, egotistical), egoísmo (big head, selfinterest, selfishness, self-love). (various references) | |
Romanian | egoist (cavalier, egoistic, egoistical, mean, selfish, self-pleasing, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Russian | эгоист (egomaniac, egotist). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | egoista. (various references) | |
Spanish | egoísta (egoistic, self indulgent, self-interested, selfish, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Swedish | egoist. (various references) | |
Turkish | egoist (calculating, egoistic, egotist, egotistical, selfish, self-seeker), bencil (calculating, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Ukranian | егоїст. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người cho mình l trên hết, người ích kỷ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egoist": egoistic, egoistical, egoistically, egoists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "egoist": superegoist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "egoist": superegoists. (additional references) | |
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"Egoist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: angoist, edoist, eggish, egist, Egisto, egit, egoic, egoiste, egost, ekofisk, eogist, eoit, eroit, geist, geois, geost, goist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "egoist" (pronounced 'E"go*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist, Amethodist, Amnicolist, Amorist, Anabaptist, Anagrammatist, Analogist, Anarchist, Anatomist, Anecdotist, Animalculist, Animist, Annalist, Annexationist, Annexionist, Annotationist, Annualist, Antarchist, Anthologist, Anthropologist, Anthropomorphist, Anthropotomist, Antichrist, Anti-federalist, Antiloquist, Antimonarchist, Antinomist, Antipathist, Antiquist, Antisocialist, Antitheist, Antivaccinist, Aorist, Apathist, Aphorist, Apiarist, Apiologist, Apocryphalist, Apologist, Apothegmatist, Appanagist, Aquarellist, Arabist, Arachnologist, Arboriculturist, Arborist, Archaeologist, Archaist, Archivist, Arcubalist, Areopagist, Arist, Armorist, Artillerist, Artist, Assientist, Associationist, Assyriologist, Atheist, Atmologist, Atomist, Augurist, Aurist, Autobiographist, Autoomist, Autotheist, Averroist, Bacteriologist, Balloonist, Baptist, Barrowist, Bassoonist, Battologist, Belle-lettrist, Bemist, Biblicist, Bibliopegist, Bibliophilist, Bibliopolist, Biblist, Bicyclist, Bigamist, Bilinguist, Bimetallist, Biogenist, Biologist, Blacklist, Boist, Bonapartist, Boodhist, Botanist, Bourbonist, Bromatologist, Bronzist, Bryologist, Bullionist, Bullist, Bureaucratist, Burinist, Cabalist, Calamist, Calligraphist, Calvinist, Cambist, Campanologist, Canoeist, Canonist, Capitalist, Caricaturist, Carlist, Carnalist, Carpologist, Cartist, Cartoonist, Carvist, Casualist, Catabaptist, Cataclysmist, Catastrophist, Catechist, Catechumenist, Categorist, Catharist, Causationist, Celibatist, Cellarist, Cerebralist, Cerographist, Cetologist, Charterist, Chartist, Chemist, Chiaroscurist, Chirographist, Chirologist, Chiropodist, Chirosophist, Choralist, Chorist, Christ, Chronogrammatist, Ciderist, Cinquecentist, Cist, Civilist, Classicalist, Classicist, Climatologist, Clubbist, Clubfist, Coalitionist, Codist, Coexist, Coleopterist, Collectivist, Colloquist, Collybist, Colonist, Colonizationist, Colorist, Communalist, Communist, Computist, Comtist, Conceptionalist, Conceptualist, Concessionist, Conchologist, Conclavist, Concordist, Confessionalist, Confessionist, Conformist, Confucianist, Congregationalist, Conjecturalist, Consist, Constitutionalist, Constitutionist, Constructionist, Consubstantialist, Contagionist, Contemplatist, Contertionist, Contrabandist, Contrapuntist, Contrist, Controversialist, Controvertist, Conventionalist, Conventionist, Conversationalist, Conversationist, Convivialist, Convocationist, Convulsionist, Copist, Copyist, Co-religionist, Cornist, Corporealist, Correligionist, Corruptionist, Cosmogonist, Cosmologist, Councilist, Craniologist, Cranioscopist, Cremationist, Criminalist, Crustaceologist, Crustalogist, Cryptogamist, Cryptographist, Culturist, Cumulatist, Curialist, Cyclist, Cyclopedist, Cymbalist, Dactylist, Damianist, Decadist, Decalogist, Decembrist, Decretist, Defectionist, Degenerationist, Deipnosophist, Deist, Democratist, Demolitionist, Demonist, Demonologist, Demonomist, Dendrologist, Denominationalist, Dentiloquist, Dentist, Deontologist, Dermatologist, Desist, Despotist, Destinist, Destructionist, Determinist, Deuterogamist, Deuteronomist, Dialist, Dialogist, Diarist, Diatribist, Dichotomist, Dietetist, Digamist, Diluvialist, Diplomatist, Discursist, Dissertationist, Distributionist, Disunionist, Ditheist, Diurnalist, Dogmatist, Donatist, Dramatist, Dramaturgist, Drollist, Druggist, Dualist, Duelist, Dynamist, Ebonist, Ecclesiologist, Economist, Educationist, Egotist, Electro-biologist, Elegist, Elocutionist, Elogist, Elohist, Emancipationist, Emancipist, Emblematist, Embryologist, Emigrationist, Empiricist, Encyclopedist, Enigmatist, Enmist, Entomologist, Entomotomist, Entozoologist, Ephemerist, Epidemiologist, Epigenesist, Epigrammatist, Epigrammist, Epigraphist, Epitaphist, Epitomist, Eponymist, Equilibrist, Erpetologist, Errorist, Essayist, Etacist, Eternalist, Ethicist, Ethnologist, Ethologist, Etymologist, Eucharist, Euhemerist, Eulogist, Euphuist, Evangelist, Evolutionist, Exclusionist, Exclusivist, Excursionist, Exegetist, Exist, Exorcist, Expeditionist, Experientiallist, Experimentist, Experimetalist, Expiatist, Extensionist, Extremist, Fabulist, Factionist, Fallowist, Familist, Famulist, Fashionist, Fatalist, Fatiloquist, Faunist, Federalist, Femalist, feudalist, Feudist, Feuilltonist, Fictionist, Figurist, finalist, Financialist, flautist. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stogie. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: egis, egos, gest, gets, gies, gist, gits, goes, sego, site, tegs, ties, toes, togs. | |
-3 letters: ego, get, gie, git, gos, got, its, oes, ose, seg, sei, set, sit, sot, teg, tie, tis, toe, tog. | |
-4 letters: es, et, go, is, it, oe, os, si, so, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: egoists, egotism, egotist, goiters, goitres, gooiest, goriest, hogties, logiest, stogies. | |
+2 letters: agouties, boggiest, digestor, dodgiest, doggiest, egestion, egoistic, egotisms, egotists, eightvos, ergotism, escoting, eulogist, foggiest, genitors, geotaxis, ghostier, godliest, goofiest, goopiest, goosiest, gorsiest, gothites, goutiest, grodiest, histogen, latigoes, loggiest, misbegot, mitogens, otalgies, outgives, podgiest, soggiest, stodgier, strigose, toughies, vertigos. | |
+3 letters: agiotages, agonistes, besotting, bestowing, bigotries, cloggiest, closeting, cogitates, corseting, cosseting, digestion, digestors, doughiest, eclogites, ecologist, egestions, egotistic, enologist, ergotisms, escorting, estopping, eulogists, foresight, foresting, fostering, froggiest, gelations, geodesist, geologist, gestation, ghostiest, ghostlier, ghostlike, globbiest, gloomiest, glossiest, glottides, glottises, goethites, goggliest, goodliest, groggiest, grooviest, grottiest, groutiest, growliest, guidepost, histogens, hosteling, impetigos, ingestion, isogamete, legations, lightsome, molesting, negations, nitrogens, obligates, obtesting, orangiest, otologies, outdesign, outguides, outseeing, outweighs, oversight, oystering, pettifogs, pilotages, poetising, progestin, ravigotes, regoliths, resorting, restoking, restoring, righteous, sectoring, singleton, smoggiest, socketing, softening, something, sonneting, sortieing, sortilege, spongiest, stereoing, stodgiest, toggeries, towelings, trilogies, vertigoes. | |
+4 letters: abiogenist, allegorist, antilogies, aragonites, autogamies, autogenies, autosexing, beshouting, besoothing, bestrowing, bolstering, categories, categorise, cetologies, cetologist, clingstone, coexisting, colligates, congesting, congestion, congestive, consenting, constringe, contesting, creosoting, cytogenies, cytologies, defrosting, depositing, designator, desolating, destroying, digestions, dogmatizes, doughtiest, ecologists, egoistical, enologists, epiglottis, ergonomist, estrogenic, ethologies, ethologist, etiologies, eulogistic, expositing, faggotries, festooning, fetologies, fetologist, fingerpost, foresights, fosterling, gelatinous, gemmations, gemologist, generosity, geochemist, geodesists, geologists, geometrics, geometrids, geometries, geometrise, geotropism, gestations, ghettoizes, ghostliest, ghostwrite, gluttonies, goatfishes, goitrogens, gothicizes, grindstone, grouchiest, growthiest, guideposts, guillemots, gulosities, holstering, hostelling, hostessing, ideologist, ingestions, isoantigen, isogametes, isogametic, isografted, knowingest, legislator, lighthouse, lobstering, logotypies, longitudes, moistening, monetising, morganites, negotiants, negotiates, nightscope, obsoleting, offsetting, ontogenies, ontologies, originates, osteogenic, outdesigns, outfigures, outriggers, outselling, outserving, overlights, overnights, oversights, oysterings, pedologist, penologist, pigeonites, presorting, progestins, prosecting, protesting, pterygoids, redingotes, repositing, reshooting, resonating, respotting, restocking, rheologist, ringtosses, roistering, roystering, rugosities, scroggiest, sectioning, serologist, sexologist, shoestring, shortening, signposted, singletons, sitologies, sloughiest, smothering, songwriter, sonnetting, sortileges, stockinged, stodginess, stoppering, stoutening, stringendo, suggestion, telegonies, tensioning, theogonies, theologies, theologise, theorising, thighbones, tightropes, tocologies, tokologies, topologies, towellings, trialogues, typologies, ungodliest, vagotomies, zygosities. | |
+5 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, aetiologies, afforesting, allegations, allegorists, ancestoring, angiotensin, antagonizes, anthologies, apologetics, astrologies, besmoothing, categorised, categorises, categorizes, cetologists, cleistogamy, clingstones, cloistering, coattesting, cognoscenti, congestions, congruities, consignment, constringed, constringes, contingents, copingstone, countersign, courtesying, deforesting, degustation, delegations, delightsome, denegations, denigrators, derogations, designation, designators, designatory, dislodgment, dogmatizers, doughtiness, droughtiest, egocentrics, egocentrism, egotistical, elongations, emigrations, epitomising, ergonomists, ergotamines, ethnologies, ethnologist, ethologists, etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, excogitates, fetologists, fingerposts, footbridges, forecasting, foresighted, foretasting, fortressing, fosterlings, gadolinites, galactoside, geminations, gemmologist, gemologists, genealogist, generations, geobotanies, geobotanist, geochemists, geometrised, geometrises, geometrizes, geopolitics, geostrophic, geotropisms, gestational, ghostliness, ghostwriter, ghostwrites, gibbosities, gingerroots, glauconites, gleizations, glossitises, goniometers, graptolites, grindstones, growthiness, guillotines, histologies, hotpressing, houselights, iceboatings, ideologists, indigestion, integrators, interposing, interrogees, invigorates, isoantigens, jettisoning, ketogenesis, keystroking, langoustine, legislation, legislators, levigations, ligamentous, lighthouses, lightsomely, lithologies, lobsterings, longevities, longsighted, methodising, metrologies, metrologist, mignonettes, misbegotten, museologist, mystagogies, mythologies, necrologist, negotiators, neologistic, neostigmine, networkings, neurologist, nightscopes, nitrogenase, nitrogenous, nonmeetings, nothingness, ontogenesis, osteologies, osteologist, outblessing, outdesigned, outdressing, outfeasting, outglitters, outguessing, outpressing, outscheming, outsleeping, outspeaking, outspeeding, outspelling, outspending, outsteering, outswearing, overcasting, overflights, oversalting, oversetting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, overweights, pathologies, pedologists, penologists, personating, petrologies, petrologist, phlogopites, poltergeist, postediting, postweaning, poussetting, prestigious, profligates, progenitors, prosecuting, proselyting, prospecting, purgatories, questioning, reassorting, redigestion, reforesting, regionalist, regulations, reignitions, relegations, religionist, religiosity, resignation, resmoothing, resprouting, rheologists, righteously, scatologies, scouthering, scroungiest, segregation, semiologist, serologists, sexologists, shergottite, shoestrings, shortenings, signatories, smoothening, somerseting, songwriters, soteriology, sovereignty, sovietizing, spotlighted, steatopygia, steatopygic, stenotyping, stevedoring, stilettoing, suggestions, superegoist, tautologies, teleologies, teleologist, telescoping, temporising, terrigenous, terrorising, tetralogies, theologians, theologised, theologises, theologizes, thigmotaxes, topdressing, tribologies, trichogynes, trypsinogen, unrighteous, variegators, vegetations, vertiginous. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)E g o i s t |
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