English-Thai Dictionary

selfish

ADJ เห็นแก่ตัว  เห็นแก่ได้  เห็นแก่ ประโยชน์ส่วนตัว  self-centered greedy mean vain egoistic hen-kea-tua

 

selfishly

ADV อย่าง เห็นแก่ตัว  อย่าง เห็นแก่ได้  อย่าง เห็นแก่ ประโยชน์ส่วนตัว  self-regardingly for profit egoistically yang-hen-kea-tua

 

selfishness

N ความเห็นแก่ตัว  ความเห็นแก่ได้  การ คำนึงถึง แต่ ประโยชน์ ส่วน ตน  self-regard parsimony vanity greed kwam-hen-kea-tua

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SELFISH

a.Regarding one's own interest chiefly or soley; influenced in actions by a view to private advantage.

 

SELFISHLY

adv. The exclusive of a person to his own interest or happiness; or that supreme self-love or self-preference, which leads a person in his actions to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power or happiness, without regarding the interest of others. Selfishness, in its worst or unqualified sense, is the ver essence of human depravity, and it stands in direct opposition to benevolence, which is the essence of the divine character. As God is love, so man, in his natural state, is selfishness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SELFISH

SELFISH Self "ish, a.

 

1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc. , in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble.

 

2. (Ethics )

 

Defn: Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

 

SELFISHLY

SELFISHLY Self "ish *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.

 

SELFISHNESS

SELFISHNESS Self "ish *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness, - a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh.

 

Syn. -- See Self-love.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

selfish

self ish |ˈselfiSH ˈsɛlfɪʃ | ▶adjective (of a person, action, or motive ) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure: I joined them for selfish reasons. DERIVATIVES self ish ly adverb

 

selfishness

self ish ness |ˈselfiSHnis | ▶noun the quality or condition of being selfish: an act of pure selfishness.

 

Oxford Dictionary

selfish

self |ish |ˈsɛlfɪʃ | ▶adjective (of a person, action, or motive ) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure: I joined them for selfish reasons. DERIVATIVES selfishly adverb

 

selfishness

self ¦ish |ness |ˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality or state of being selfish; lack of consideration for other people: an act of pure selfishness.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

selfish

selfish adjective he is just selfish by nature: egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-centered, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself; inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, uncaring, uncharitable; mean, miserly, grasping, greedy, mercenary, acquisitive, opportunistic; informal looking after number one. ANTONYMS altruistic.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

selfish

selfish adjective he is just selfish by nature: egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-centred, self-regarding, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself, inward-looking, introverted, self-loving; inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, uncaring, heedless, unmindful, regardless, insensitive, tactless, uncharitable, unkind; mean, miserly, grasping, greedy, mercenary, money-grubbing, acquisitive, opportunistic, out for what one can get; informal looking after number one, on the make. ANTONYMS unselfish, selfless, altruistic, considerate, generous.

 

selfishness

selfishness noun selfishness is one of the biggest problems in marriages: egocentrism, egotism, egomania, introversion, self-seeking, self-serving, self-obsession, self-absorption, self-regard, self-interest, self-love; lack of consideration, inconsiderateness, thoughtlessness, unthinkingness, heedlessness, regardlessness, insensitivity, insensitiveness, tactlessness, uncharitableness, unkindness; meanness, miserliness, greed, acquisitiveness, opportunism; informal looking after number one. ANTONYMS unselfishness, altruism; generosity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

selfish

self ish /sélfɪʃ /〖self (自己 )ish (的な )〗形容詞 more ～; most ～利己的な , 自己中心的な ; わがままな (↔unselfish , selfless ); 〖it is selfish (of A ) to do 〗(A 〈人 〉が )…するとはわがままだ ▸ You are selfish [It is selfish of you ] to do such a thing .そんなことをするなんて君は身勝手だ ▸ selfish behavior わがままなふるまい ～ness 名詞 U 自分本意, わがまま .

 

selfishly

s é lf ish ly 副詞 身勝手に, わがままに ; 自己中心的に .