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| Main Entry: | selfish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking only of oneself |
| Synonyms: | egocentric, egotistic, greedy*, mean, mercenary, miserly, narcissistic, narrow, narrow-minded, parsimonious, prejudiced, self-centered, self-indulgent, stingy, ungenerous, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, hoggish, out for number one, self-interested, self-seeking, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | kind, unselfish, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | covetous, gluttonous, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight*, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed*, itchy*, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, ensurient, grabby, grudging, hogging, piggish, prehensile, swinish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | egocentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
| Synonyms: | conceited, egotistic, individualist, narcissistic, pompous, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-indulgent, selfish, stuck-up, vainglorious, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, individualistic, megalomaniac, self-concerned, self-interested, self-loving, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming, selfless |
| Main Entry: | exclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unshared, restricted |
| Synonyms: | absolute, aloof, aristocratic, chic, choice, chosen, clannish, classy, closed, complete, confined, country club, elegant, entire, fashionable, full, independent, licensed, limited, narrow, only, particular, peculiar, posh, preferential, private, privileged, prohibitive, restrictive, ritzy, segregated, select, selfish, single, snobbish, sole, total, undivided, unique, whole, circumscribed, cliquish, discriminative, exclusionary, exclusory, socially correct, swank, upper crust |
| Antonyms: | divided, part, partial, shared, unlimited, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, desirous, extortionate, itchy*, mean, miserly, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted*, venal, close-fisted, extorting, grabby, niggardly, prehensile, usurious |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, gluttonous, grasping, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, piggish, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconsiderate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insensitive to others |
| Synonyms: | boorish, brash, careless, discourteous, hasty, impolite, incautious, indelicate, intolerant, reckless, rude, self-centered, selfish, sharp, short, tactless, thoughtless, unceremonious, uncharitable, ungracious, unkind, unthinking |
| Antonyms: | considerate, generous, kind, nice, sensitive, tactful, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy for money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, corrupt, covetous, grasping, miserly, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal, bribable, grabby, money-grubbing |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | misanthropic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable, cynical |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, malevolent, reclusive, reserved, sarcastic, selfish, solitary, standoffish, unfriendly, egoistic, egotistical, eremitic, hating, inhumane, misanthropical |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, philanthropic, sociable |
| Main Entry: | parsimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, chintzy*, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, selfish, skinflint*, sparing, stingy*, tight*, tightfisted*, tightwad*, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, liberal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty*, high-flown*, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffy*, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up*, supercilious, turgid, uppity*, vain, vainglorious, windy*, highfaluting*, puffed up |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | possessive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, controlling, craving, desirous, dominating, grasping, selfish, grabby, hoggish |
| Main Entry: | sectional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | localized, divided |
| Synonyms: | exclusive, local, narrow, partial, regional, selfish, separate, factional, separatist |
| Antonyms: | general, universal, widespread |
| Main Entry: | self-centered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbed with oneself |
| Synonyms: | egocentric, egotistic, independent, know-it-all*, narcissistic, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-sufficient, selfish, egoistic, egomaniacal, egotistical, grandstanding, having a swelled head, inward-looking, on an ego trip, self-interested, self-involved, self-seeking, self-serving, stuck on oneself, wrapped up with oneself |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, giving, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | small-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, illiberal, intolerant, opinionated, petty, prejudiced, selfish, short-sighted |
| Main Entry: | sordid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, bad, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, poor, seedy, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, sleazy, slovenly, slum, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched, low-down, scurvy, self-seeking, slummy, uncleanly |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, reputable, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy*, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, saving, selfish, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, grudging, ironfisted, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ulterior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret; pertaining to a hidden goal |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, guarded, hidden, implied, obscure, personal, privy, remote, secondary, selfish, under wraps*, undisclosed, unexpressed, unsaid, buried, obscured, shrouded, under cover, undivulged |
| Antonyms: | known, overt, public, expressed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ungrateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appreciative |
| Synonyms: | careless, demanding, dissatisfied, faultfinding, forgetful, grasping, grumbling, heedless, ingrate, insensible, oblivious, self-centered, selfish, thankless, unmindful, unnatural, unappreciative, unthankful |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, grateful, thankful |
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