Definition of SELFISH

selfish

Adjective

  • Concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself; lacking consideration for others.
  • concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; - Maria Weston Chapman
    • "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"

Adj

  • Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
  • Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
  • Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
  • 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.

Examples

  • His SELFISH play blocked off all the triple letter scores for his opponent.

Origin / Etymology

From self + -ish. Compare Danish selvisk (“selfish”), Swedish självisk (“selfish”).

Synonyms

egoistic, egotistic, egotistical, greedy, self-centered

Scrabble Score: 13

selfish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
selfish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
selfish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

selfish: valid Words With Friends Word