Selfish

Definition: Selfish

Selfish

Adjective

1. Concerned chiefly or only with yourself; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "selfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Satire

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Gluttony

Avaricious; selfish.

Selfishness

Verb: be selfish; Adjective: please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell.

Adjective: selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical.

Crosswords: Selfish

This is only a dream. When you wake up, you'll just be Peter Banning - a cold, selfish man who drinks too much, who's obsessed with success, and runs and hides from his wife and children (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;)

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Although he had everything his heart desired the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

How can someone so selfish, make me feel so guilty (Get a Clue; writing credit: Alana Burgi)

I understand that you are going through a selfish phase (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

I know it may sound selfish (Cool Change; performing artist: Little River Band)

I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish (Man In The Mirror; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard)

The longer that I wait the more selfish that I get, (Simple Kind of Life; performing artist: No Doubt)

The selfish, they’re all standing in line (I Am Mine; performing artist: Pearl Jam)

Some say I'm a selfish untalented dreamer (Friends And Family; performing artist: Trik Turner)

Selfish shellfish. (references; author: unknown)

The Selfish Giant (1971)

Selfish Yates (1918)

The Selfish Woman (1916)

SELFISH ONE  (performing artist: Jackie Ross )

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Books

• From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences (reference)

• How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig (reference)

• The Selfish Crocodile (reference)

• The Selfish Giant (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Selfish Giant (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Koehne: Selfish Giant/Once Around the Sun (reference)

• Selfish Lover (reference)

• The Selfish Giant (1993 Kings College, England, Cast) [CAST RECORDING] [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The selfish misconception that induces you to transform into eternal laws of nature and of reason, the social forms springing from your present mode of production and form of property-historical relations that rise and disappear in the progress of production -- this misconception you share with every ruling class that has preceded you. (reference)

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He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion

And his great generous soul seemed so filled with noble ambition as to have no space left for any vain regret or selfish repining

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Expressions using "selfish": selfish man ♦ selfish person. Additional references.

Ending with "selfish": bone-selfish, non-selfish, over-selfish.

Afrikaans

baatsugtig (self-interested). (various references)

Albanian

egoist (egoist, egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محب لذاته فقط, ‏أناني (asocial, egocentric, egoist, egoistic, greedy, hoggish, self centered, self centred). (various references)

Bulgarian 

себелюбив, себеичен, егоистичен (egoistic, piggish, thoughtless). (various references)

Chinese 

自私 (selfishness). (various references)

Czech

sobecký (egoistic, possessive, self centered). (various references)

Danish

egoistisk (self-interested). (various references)

Dutch

zelfzuchtig (self-interested), egoïstisch (self-interested), baatzuchtig (self-interested). (various references)

Esperanto

egoista (self-interested), egoisma (self-interested). (various references)

Farsi 

خودپسند, خودپرست , خودخواه . (various references)

Finnish

itsekäs (egoistic, self-seeking). (various references)

French

égoïste (selfish man, self-seeking, self-serving). (various references)

Frisian

eigenikkich (self-interested). (various references)

German

selbstsüchtig (egoistic, egomaniacal, selfishly), eigennützig (self interested, selfishly), egoistisch (egoistic, egoistical, egoistically, egotistical, selfishly). (various references)

Greek 

ιδιοτελής, φίλαυτοσ (individualist), εγωιστικόσ (egoistic), εγωιστής (self-centred). (various references)

Hebrew 

אגואיסט (egoist), אנוכי (self centered, self centred), אנכיי. (various references)

Hungarian

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

Indonesian

egois (egoist, egoistic). (various references)

Italian

egoistico (self-interested). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

虫が良い (asking too much), 虫がいい , 虫のいい , 自己中心 (egotistic), 自儘 , 自分勝手 (self-centered), 手前勝手 (self-centered), 気侭 (willful), 気儘 , 恣意的 , 擅 (arbitrary, self-indulgent), 我が強い (egoistic, self-willed), さまざまな理由から (anguishedly, for various reasons, game-ending home run, mean, self-interested, self-seeking, sorrowfully), 利己的 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ががつよい (egoistic, self-willed), きまま (one's own way, selfishness, willful, willfulness), しいてき, さもしい (mean, self-interested, self-seeking), ほしいまま (arbitrary, self-indulgent), りこてき, むしがいい (asking too much), むしのいい, じまま, じぶんかって (self-centered), じこちゅうしん (egotistic), てまえがって (self-centered). (various references)

Korean 

이기 (Self-interested, self-serving). (various references)

Manx

sondagh (avaricious, close-fisted, covetous, greedy, miser, sordid). (various references)

Pig Latin

elfishsay.(various references)

Portuguese

interesseiro (interested), egoísta (base, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeker, self-seeking, small). (various references)

Romanian

interesat (assign, concerned, interested, interestedly, mercantile, mercenary, self-seeking), egoist (cavalier, egoist, egoistic, egoistical, mean, self-pleasing, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references)

Russian 

эгоистичный (egocentric, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, self centered, self centred, self-centred). (various references)

Scottish

féineil (a. selfish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sebičan (self centered, self centred), samoživ. (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

självisk (egoistic, self indulgent, self-seeking), egennyttig. (various references)

Turkish

kendini düşünen (self centered, self centred, self-absorbed), egoist (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotist, egotistical, self-seeker), bencil (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, self-seeker, thoughtless), bencíl (self-interested). (various references)

Ukrainian

себелюбний (egoistic, egoistical), егоїстичний (appropriate, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, hoggish, self centered, self centred). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ích kỷ (dog, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-interested). (various references)

Welsh

hunanol (conceited), hunan.gar (self-loving). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "selfish": selfishly, selfishness, selfishnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "selfish": damselfish, unselfish. (additional references)

Words containing "selfish": damselfishes, unselfishly, unselfishness, unselfishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Selfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salish, saltfish, saltish, seafish, selfes, selffish, selfoss, selgish, Selltiz, shelfish, slefish, Slemish. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hisself.

-1 letter: elfish, filses, fishes, shiels.

-2 letters: files, flesh, flies, heils, isles, seifs, selfs, shelf, shiel, shies.

-3 letters: elhi, fehs, fess, file, fils, fish, heil, hies, hiss, isle, leis, less, lief, lies, life, seif, seis, self, sels, shes.

-4 letters: efs, elf, els, ess, feh, fie, fil, hes, hie, his, ifs, lei, lie, lis, sei, sel, she.

+1 letter: fishless.

+2 letters: faithless, fishlines, fishmeals, fishpoles, flashiest, flemishes, fleshiest, fleshings, sablefish, selfishly, shadflies, shellfish, shiftless, shinleafs, shooflies, swellfish, unselfish.

+3 letters: billfishes, blowfishes, bluefishes, blueshifts, coalfishes, damselfish, dealfishes, fallfishes, filefishes, filthiness, fishplates, flashiness, flatfishes, fleshiness, fleshliest, flightless, flourishes, foolfishes, foolishest, goldfishes, horseflies, houseflies, ladyfishes, lionfishes, lumpfishes, lungfishes, milkfishes, safelights, sailfishes, shellfires, silverfish, thriftless, tilefishes, wolffishes.