selfish
US: /ˈsɛɫfɪʃ/
UK: /sˈɛlfɪʃ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
selfish /'selfiʃ/- tính từ
- ích kỷ
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjectivecaring only about yourself rather than about other people: selfish behaviour / demands + Do you think I'm being selfish by not letting her go? + What a selfish thing to do! + It was selfish of him to leave all the work to you.
Antonym: UNSELFISH, SELFLESS
selfishly adverb: She looked forward, a little selfishly, to a weekend away from her family.
selfishness noun [U]: He was the victim of his own greed and selfishness.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 greedy, covetous, grasping, avaricious, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing, acquisitive, self-seeking, self-loving, self-centred, self-absorbed, self-interested, self-serving, egotistic(al), egoistic(al):
They pursue success for their own selfish ends.
2 stingy, mean, mercenary, tight, tight-fisted, narrow, penurious, parsimonious, miserly, niggardly, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, ungenerous, illiberal, grudging, uncharitable, possessive, inconsiderate, thoughtless:
He is so selfish that he won't even give you the right time.
Collocation
VERBS
be, feel, seem, sound | become
ADV.
extremely, incredibly, very | entirely, purely, totally, utterly | pretty, quite, rather
a pretty selfish attitude
| basically
People are basically selfish.
Concise dictionary
'selfɪʃadj.
+concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others
