Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others;
- Example: "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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They judge of things according to their own private
appetites and selfish passions. --Cudworth.
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In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. --Keble.
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2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of
human action are derived from love of self.
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Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.
--Fleming.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
selfish
adj 1: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "selfish":
acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, avaricious, careerist,
covetous, egocentric, egocentristic, egoistic, egoistical,
egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, grasping, greedy, grudging,
illiberal, inconsiderate, individualistic, mean, mercenary,
miserly, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, narrow,
niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, personalistic,
possessive, privatistic, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring,
self-advancing, self-aggrandizing, self-besot, self-centered,
self-concerned, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted,
self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous,
self-loving, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking,
self-serving, self-sufficient, stingy, thoughtless, tight,
tight-fisted, uncharitable, ungenerous
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.