self-serving

1. 1.

   interested only in yourself

   Synonymsself-seeking

   Similarselfish

Questions about self-serving

What does self-serving mean?

self-serving means "interested only in yourself".

How many syllables are in self-serving?

self-serving has 3 syllables: self--ser-ving. The stress falls on "self-".

What is another word for self-serving?

Close synonyms include self-seeking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-serving a common word?

self-serving is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.