adj.
Pronunciation: ' sel-fish
Function: adjective
Date: 1640
1 : concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others
2 : arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others <a selfish act>
3 : being an actively replicating repetitive sequence of nucleic acid that serves no known function < selfish DNA> also : being genetic material solely concerned with its own replication < selfish genes>
– self · ish · ly adverb
– self · ish · ness noun