unselfish
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsɛlfɪʃ/
- Like you, I think adopting children is one of the most unselfish things a person can do.
- an unselfish contribution
- unselfish service
And so it's being unselfish that actually serves the self.
- And so it's being unselfish that actually serves the self.
- I, I suppose the idea is that you can't ever truly be unselfish if you don't have children.
- Welfare doesn't mean these relationships are unselfish.
- Like I, I think people everyday choose to do things for other people, like most people do kind things that are unselfish.
- Care is unselfish, and trying to ground something that is definitionally unselfish in market systems that reward being selfish is just not going to work.
- We're singing in, in, in religious, but we do in, in other ways, just like male, female, evil, good, selfish, unselfish.
Examples
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That was unselfish of you.
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People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing.
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- Oh, you are the most unselfish person I know.
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I guess I feel a general, unselfish love for just about everybody.
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Not many of us would be so unselfish.
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Oh, Herbert, that is so sweet and unselfish of you.
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We are a great country, an unselfish country, and a compassionate country.
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It's a two-way street, and we both do it for the most unselfish of reasons.
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You're always so unselfish.
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He made an unselfish choice to donate his bonus to charity.
Synonyms
Willing to forgive small mistakes and not be strict
Caring more about other people's needs than your own
Wanting to help other people even when it costs you
Ready to give up your own needs to help others
Caring about people in the community and acting to help
Ready to put other people's needs before your own and help them
Doing things that help other people
A person who thinks about and cares for other people
Antonyms
How Selfless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unselfish is easy to remember: un- means 'not' and self means 'your own', as in 'yourself'. So unselfish describes a person 'not thinking only of themselves' and willing to put others first.