unselfish
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.un·self·ish
adjective \ˌən-ˈsel-fish\Definition of UNSELFISH
See Examples of UNSELFISH
- She's a very unselfish young woman.
- <an unselfish man who spends much of his time helping his community>
First Known Use of UNSELFISH
1698
Related to UNSELFISH
- Synonyms
- bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, fulsome, liberal, munificent, open, openhanded, generous, unsparing, unstinting
- Antonyms
- cheap, close, closefisted, costive, illiberal [archaic], mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, selfish, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous
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