Selfish

Quick meaning: Selfish is an adjective meaning Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

Meaning

Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

More Meanings

1. Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
2. (video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
3. (biology) Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene; best understood as existing to preserve and replicate itself in competition with other entities at the same level of existence, rather than at the level of the individual or population containing it.

Example Sentences

Through this hypothesized mechanism, a selfish virus would reduce the probability that other co-infecting genotypes contribute the expected share of their genes to the progeny.

The "selfish meme" concept does not, of course, ascribe any consciousness or motivation to the meme; it simply means we can understand better by looking at evolution from the meme's point of view.

With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.

Take warning by my fate, and shun that flowery and bewitching path; for in its labyrinths the good, the gentle, the kind-hearted, and the benevolent, are too often lost; while the sordid and the selfish scarcely so much as run a hazard.

Word Forms

• selfisher
• selfishest
• selvish

Synonyms for selfish

Depending on context, synonyms include egocentric, egoistical, idiocentric, individualistic, interested, porkish.

Antonyms for selfish

Common opposites include self-abnegatory, altruistic, otherish, philanthropic, selfless, abstemious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-seeking, self-serving, egotistical, narcissistic, ungenerous, stingy.

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