| 单词 | selfish |
| 释义 | selfish (once / 186 pages) adj Someone who is selfish cares only about themselves and doesn't consider others. If a ship is sinking and you refuse to let anyone else into your 4-person lifeboat, you're extremely selfish. Selfish combines the pronoun self-, meaning to or for yourself, with the suffix-ish, for "having the character of." So if your actions are selfish, they all have to do with getting something for yourself, like attention, or candy, or power. Selfish is usually meant to be an insult; someone selfish goes beyond just taking care of themselves, and actively takes from others. The opposite of selfish is self-sacrificing, which means, "giving everything to others and sacrificing your own needs." WORD FAMILYselfish: selfisher, selfishest, selfishly, selfishness, unselfish+/self: self-colored, selfish, selfless, selfs, selves/selfishness: selfishnesses/selfless: selflessly, selflessness/unselfish: unselfisher, unselfishly, unselfishness/unselfishness: unselfishnesses USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Reinecke received an 18-month suspended sentence from a federal judge, who called him a victim of his own “selfish ambition.” Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) In handing down the sentence, the federal judge called Reinecke “a victim of your own selfish ambition.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 25, 2016) It was an acrimonious separation, with Patty later describing him as "a selfish child who never grew up". BBC(Dec 24, 2016) adj 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 Syn|Ant egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs inconsideratelacking regard for the rights or feelings of others stingy, ungenerousunwilling to spend egotistic, egotistical, narcissistic, self-lovingcharacteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance self-seeking, self-servinginterested only in yourself unselfish disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others altruistic, selflessshowing unselfish concern for the welfare of others considerateshowing concern for the rights and feelings of others generouswilling to give and share unstintingly public-spiritedshowing unselfish interest in the public welfare self-denying, self-giving, self-sacrificingwilling to deprive yourself self-forgetfulshowing lack of self-interest sharingunselfishly willing to share with others |
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