Unselfish
[ʌn'selfɪʃ] or [ʌn'sɛlfɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) not greedy .
(adj.) disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Disinterested, generous, liberal, magnanimous, high-minded.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Examples
- You can read there that the composite judgment is always safer and wiser and stronger and more unselfish than the judgment of any one individual mind. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He wished to be unselfish; and he hoped he was. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You are more unselfish--you are a better man than I believed you to be. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Give me that unselfish nature, That with charity divine Can pardon wrong for love's dear sake-- Meek heart, forgive me mine! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But we soon dropped that subject, and Sir Percival spoke next, in the most unselfish terms, of his engagement with Laura. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was noble, unselfish, loving--all that my husband was not. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It might be difficult to give an unselfish reason for being prepossessed against him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My fancy, made a little wild by the wind perhaps, would not consent to be all unselfish, either, though I would have persuaded it to be so if I could. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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