Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈsɛlfɪʃ/
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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
- Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
- (video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
- (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.
Esimerkit
- “We all have both a selfish separate self, and an Inner Being that is One with the Universal Spirit. In this sense, every human has a sort of ‘split personality’. We are all kind of what you call ‘schitzy’ with these two sides, these two people living within us. And they are in total opposition. The free will dictates which of these two sides will have its way in our life, at every given moment.”
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[...]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Taivutusmuodot
| Komparatiivi | more selfish |
| Superlatiivi | most selfish |