dictionary definitions for "selfish"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  selfish
      adj : 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
            [ant: unselfish]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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