as in selfish
overly concerned with one's own desires, needs, or interests
most of the local teenagers seem too self-involved to care much about the world that lies beyond their affluent suburb
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Recent Examples of self-involved
Not just for this reason, but also due to the fact she’s been so self-involved the past year.
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Erin Clack, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025
A little self-involved, but the check clears either way.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024
And Janine is causing chaos, being self-involved, but under the guise of helping the school.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
That’s par for the course with a contract negotiation like this, particularly with wide receivers who are, on the whole, weird and self-involved.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
But, where much of today’s trendy work is self-involved, Brown’s dances bring succor to the audience.
—The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
Her mother, an eccentric workaholic, delegated the great bulk of child care to her playful and charismatic, if pretentious and self-involved, husband and to the family’s reliable, steady nanny.
—Priscilla Gilman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
My mother used to say that young adulthood was her least favorite phase of life – people in their 20s are particularly self-involved.
—Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
Erin Clack, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025
A little self-involved, but the check clears either way.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024
And Janine is causing chaos, being self-involved, but under the guise of helping the school.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
That’s par for the course with a contract negotiation like this, particularly with wide receivers who are, on the whole, weird and self-involved.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
But, where much of today’s trendy work is self-involved, Brown’s dances bring succor to the audience.
—The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
Her mother, an eccentric workaholic, delegated the great bulk of child care to her playful and charismatic, if pretentious and self-involved, husband and to the family’s reliable, steady nanny.
—Priscilla Gilman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
My mother used to say that young adulthood was her least favorite phase of life – people in their 20s are particularly self-involved.
—Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-involved
selfish
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In this story, the father’s behavior is exemplary and mothers (more than one) are selfish with bad habits who don’t act to their children’s benefit.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
14 July 2025
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The removal of living beings from their natural environment, along with the massive scale of human intervention, can be just as pernicious as the instinctive and selfish destruction that is often overlooked.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
10 July 2025
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“Self-involved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-involved. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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