Usually means: Prioritizing own needs over others'.
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  1. selfish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. selfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. selfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. selfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. selfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Selfish, selfish: Wordnik
  7. selfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. selfish: Wiktionary
  9. selfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. selfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. selfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. selfish: Dictionary.com
  13. selfish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. selfish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Selfish (Asia Cruise song), Selfish (Future song), Selfish (House), Selfish (Jessica Mauboy song), Selfish (PnB Rock song), Selfish (book), Selfish (disambiguation), Selfish (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Selfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. selfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. selfish: Rhymezone
  19. selfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. selfish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. selfish: Free Dictionary
  22. selfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. selfish: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. selfish: Legal dictionary

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(Note: See selfishly as well.)

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adjective:  Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
adjective:  Having regard for one's own well-being above that of others.
adjective:  (video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
adjective:  (biology) 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.

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