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say it: SEL-fish
selfish is an adjective meaning "concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others". It carries one recorded sense.
concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others
“Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for selfish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.