Usually means: Prioritizing own needs over others'.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. selfish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. selfish: Merriam-Webster
  3. selfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. selfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. selfish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. selfish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Selfish, selfish: Wordnik
  8. selfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. selfish: Wiktionary
  10. selfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. selfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. selfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. selfish: Dictionary.com
  14. selfish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. selfish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. 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
  17. Selfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. selfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. selfish: Rhymezone
  20. selfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. selfish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. selfish: FreeDictionary.org
  23. selfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. selfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. selfish: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. selfish: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See selfishly as well.)

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adjective:  Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
adjective:  Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being (ex. personal profit or pleasure) above that of others and take no consideration for 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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