unselfish
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2.0
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsɛlfɪʃ/
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desinteresado
- 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.
Blog text (4) -
You're always so unselfish.
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He made an unselfish choice to donate his bonus to charity.
Synonyms
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1.2
Willing to forgive small mistakes and not be strict
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3.2
Caring more about other people's needs than your own
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6.7
Wanting to help other people even when it costs you
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5.5
Ready to give up your own needs to help others
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4.6
Caring about people in the community and acting to help
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7.3
Ready to put other people's needs before your own and help them
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5.5
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.