selfishly

1. 1.

   in an egotistical manner

   “he behaved egotistically”

   Synonymsegotistically

   Antonymsunselfishly

Questions about selfishly

What does selfishly mean?

selfishly means "in an egotistical manner".

How many syllables are in selfishly?

selfishly has 3 syllables and divides as sel-fish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for selfishly?

Close synonyms include egotistically. 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.