Describing Wordsfor Selfishness

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Here are some adjectives for selfishness: sordid and hungry, indolent or insolent, obdurate and narrow, utter natural, chaste and consistent, simple self-centered, undisguised hard, snug exclusive, intense and unconscious, unrestricted animal, obvious wise, healthy and heroic, complete and irredeemable, well-nigh ferocious, deep-seated, remorseless, improvident and stupid, all--merely individual, limitless national, narrow, intriguing, terrible corrosive, naked, ignorant, pure unreflective, infernal, incarnate, deep, engrossing, disgusting and inordinate, monstrous parental, unutterably cruel, blind and vile, innate and brutal, crafty, sanctimonious. You can get the definitions of these selfishness adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to selfishness (and find more here).

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Words to Describe selfishness

Below is a list of describing words for selfishness. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe selfishness:

sordid and hungry indolent or insolent obdurate and narrow utter natural chaste and consistent simple self-centered undisguised hard snug exclusive intense and unconscious unrestricted animal obvious wise healthy and heroic complete and irredeemable well-nigh ferocious deep-seated, remorseless improvident and stupid all--merely individual limitless national narrow, intriguing terrible corrosive naked, ignorant pure unreflective infernal, incarnate
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deep, engrossing disgusting and inordinate monstrous parental unutterably cruel blind and vile innate and brutal crafty, sanctimonious unlawful and murderous specious but transparent such timorous utter, unworthy more calloused low, misguided simply ethical inevitable, equal colossal and fiendish keen and unconscious petty shortsighted unconscious, cruel inordinate, morbid intense and heartless quite obstinate blind and quite obstinate contemptuous and ungrateful entirely human-sounding fine relentless monumental and destructive ancient grudging invincible gay airy and gracious excess, gross mere refined boundless, pitiless inexplicable, triumphant ecclesiastical, national heedless prodigal sweet dual blandly assertive witty and refined ludicrous and vain honest, unblushing hard, instinctive refined and unconscious resolute and incorrigible afraid, utter vile, unfathomable egotistic or unconscious characteristic and profound respectively hard murderous, fiendish complete but unconscious deliberate and most repulsive ruthless individual latent utter crafty and servile ignoble and unscrupulous generalized and deliberate corrupt and impudent ingenious resolute stagnant double utter, callous sinister and sordid past liberal serene, inflexible plain, rotten final remorseless narrow and cold-blooded involuntary or unconscious exclusive and inveterate natural sentimental pathetic and affectionate senseless and unprofitable coarse, servile low, subtle perfect and invincible active and youthful repulsively human ignorant clerical distinct and embarrassing enlightened mutual expensive, such basic, overweening such unaccommodating fantastic and hardly conceivable outrageous parental greedy, beautiful complete and wondrous mere uncorrected utter and heartless consistent and portentous curious, dogmatic frank and unblushing approval corporate wicked, immoral horrible overwhelming sacred, sanctified benign and lofty rife and innate deep scheming aristocratic and commercial greater and harder wholly characteristic brutal and colossal gay, heartless characteristic austrian regal and aristocratical bigoted, brutal continual moral cynical, sensual universal or partial pure, wicked utmost callous blind economic aggressive, conscious evil, intentional certain artless royal or national utter and thorough intense and intelligent tiny, individual merely cunning hateful and horrible soft placid awful and inexplicable quite noteworthy grim, pitiless thorough and entire deep and unconscious harsh, proud intense and comprehensive brutal national innocent, instinctive utter seeming curious boyish almost justifiable sheer criminal naked, undisguised local or sectional such unforgiving entirely consistent blind and narrow own unrestrained insatiable and wanton sweet and anxious great and undying ugly brutal impatient, overbearing perfect and unconscious narrow and jealous hard immovable active industrious same wanton down petty proud and perfect own meanest eternal, indestructible true and ideal terribly pathetic blind and perverse deliberate and malignant perhaps native perhaps criminal mere civic sullen, black mad, blind whole abominable thy dreary wholesome masculine crafty and cunning cold, exacting other prudential total artistic totally unscrupulous violent and aggressive mere and pure naturally narrow rough boyish absolutely unalloyed exalted and glorious low and miserable contemporary industrial low and mercenary pleasant, innocent less petty cold-blooded and cruel old moody stupid and ferocious dark, passionate little enlightened hardly conceivable cruel heartless complete philosophic great inherent usual idle little shrewd such incarnate cruel and disgusting happy, youthful sheer lazy quite characteristic vain and childish cold military rather comfortable quiet, amiable little honest general masculine natural childish pure, young practical, business-like own ingrained stupid, fearful certain sublime cold and utter wholesome, healthy alone mere just absolute sordid, brutal highly enlightened clumsy and stupid more ineffable mere masculine mere mad usual cynical usual charming same complacent own engrossing immense commercial mere sordid such unconscious deepest, blackest certain cautious less repulsive gross animal own consummate same unscrupulous cold and barren such uncontrolled evidently mere almost lunatic such systematic such outspoken national and industrial own monstrous own lazy national or individual frank, open such unscrupulous coarse and violent sheer brutal individual or national egocentric such heartless such sheer national and individual fierce and brutal deep abiding openly avowed such everlasting pure and unadulterated pure blind social and sexual almost criminal such unconscionable sweet, delicious long previous more crafty same barbarous mere instinctive quite unconscious human-sounding old comfortable such cold-blooded just pure shortsighted easy, indolent enlightened mere commonplace mere individual low and sordid utter egoistical such monstrous such unnatural heartless almost feline general national callous fernal unaccommodating such glaring social and individual sordid just natural own stupid cold, heartless own fond good sensible ingrained just sheer often mere incarnate miserable human pure unadulterated own essential own innate rankest pardonable cantonal plain, ordinary more absolute calloused oligarchical inordinate cold-blooded innate overweening inborn hell-bent therefore less such colossal self-centered epicurean intense own utter such blind mere blind little wholesome little real self-interested private little egotistic unrestrained own huge deep-rooted case-hardened mere private unblushing cruel, heartless immediate personal engrossing crass average human more troublesome unreflective unforgivable culpable such barbarous material and spiritual undisguised gross inherent unspiritual unpatriotic unalloyed refined nearly pure brutal such criminal own hard unbounded patrimonial least equal little apparent prudential almost physical obtuse icy cold sectional indiscriminating narrowest unscrupulous atrocious consummate mere vulgar short-term such vulgar aristocratical own inherent unbridled irredeemable masculine pure pure human thoughtless parental narrow-minded colossal such hideous same cold corrosive flagrant unadulterated saner mere ordinary scheming abysmal unthinking own miserable well-understood unconscious congenital unorganized utter and complete all-consuming uncommunicative cruel more obvious contemptible parsimonious sinful rife more natural remorseless uncorrected individual pure, unadulterated purely personal obdurate high-handed unforgiving sweet young unchecked ordinary human own childish pharisaical such universal timorous hard, cold intentional intrinsic egregious lethargic self-indulgent consistent avowed inexcusable fiendish such miserable abominable shameless avaricious crafty human poor human certain social limitless deliberate instinctive pitiless blind reprehensible antisocial self-destructive napoleonic craven criminal such brutal national unbelievable morbid such petty sanctified improvident undiluted more sinister deep-seated anti-social petty reactionary boundless absolute such personal unsocial unselfish ruthless essential natural such utter petulant exorbitant narrow highly specialized reckless uncaring extreme childish naive greedy easy-going uncompromising misbegotten disgusting all-pervading sensual diabolical revolting mercenary deep, dark systematic indolent rather shabby more enlightened monstrous meanest indelicate barbarous such wicked assertive ill-mannered justifiable self-seeking sheer purest profound unmoved predominant cynical tyrannical always more or less characteristic detestable ignoble always more exacting complacent far-sighted individualistic inveterate senile money-making repulsive undue aggressive aimless indomitable ignorant frank unworthy abject unyielding privileged highest possible concurrent instinctual blatant shrewd carnal universal jealous hateful paltry insatiable careless generalized invulnerable mere undeniable sublime unreasonable vulgar more human artless prevalent frightful odious superlative upper-class cold competitive more intelligent subtle more refined predatory disheartening immemorial two-fold heathenish ineffable impervious olympian masterful filial cloistered well-regulated unparalleled sectarian sentimental insulting undisturbed obstinate collective wanton brassy spiritual altruistic unwarrantable ladylike monarchical hideous ungrateful inconceivable intelligent despicable imperturbable dynastic pampered inflexible personal sanctimonious immeasurable exclusive excessive irritable montreal covetous dual malignant thorough momentary more practical good-natured egotistical outspoken almost universal apparent adroit incurable feline boyish illiberal baser timid satanic servile unnatural unthinkable indestructible impulsive disloyal artful inhuman affluent insolent undying indistinct every-day lowest wicked monumental endearing institutional arbitrary hypocritical serene vicarious coarse degenerate barren boisterous resolute more subtle corporate dogmatic commercial naked aristocratic headstrong departmental little less offhand virtuous merciless strident grudging unprofitable diseased senseless unsuspected malign healthy suicidal needless icy prudent habitual half-conscious regal ferocious haunting untamed unqualified unlimited immature overbearing outrageous simple-minded profoundest unemotional prodigal honest seeming luxurious insane sullen aggregate frenzied bigoted natured chaste unconscionable meaner morose business-like childlike haughty psychical vile hungry terror-stricken destructive inert infinite monolithic mad specious arrogant passionate moody blackest tenacious intolerable basic vindictive stupid murderous miserable incalculable intriguing ungovernable own peculiar tasteless social sodden ironical pitiable paternal cunning sunny aloof unfathomable bloodless exceptional idle perverse almost incredible partisan immovable savage stubborn divine ever-present incorrigible light-hearted bestial apathetic fussy infamous wise well-meaning watchful single-minded unending unlawful presumptuous noteworthy abnormal philosophic vicious uncontrolled irrelevant austrian gratuitous solitary latent infernal abiding impudent own individual hard shallow godlike animal invincible guilty native well-bred horrid commonplace arid utmost affectionate immoral excess rampant provincial impure unwholesome fundamental relentless fanatical middle-class ultimate charitable dominant titanic terrible constitutional integral sociological horrible incompetent immortal uncharacteristic candid pagan youthful exuberant economic heroic appalling inexplicable dishonest misguided shameful comfortable compulsory judicious eager dirty innocent perfect complete fierce querulous contemptuous material impartial triumphant opulent villainous wholesome cheerful overwhelming sterile ruinous lazy impatient fond generous amiable sinister pathological transparent vehement elemental same old hollow civic conscious prodigious spotless satisfying calm capricious exalted stolid palpable oppressive communal primal suspicious witty pathetic obvious stony astonishing interested lawless sleepless involuntary negative harder silken victorious cosmic ludicrous dreary feudal brilliant respectable comparative specialized prehistoric devastating impossible courteous defiant merest brutish equal simple impetuous stainless blithe quiet heedless all-powerful concrete impenetrable audacious immediate low less pitiful private common metaphysical general tortuous puny airy ethical gifted obscene barbaric maternal swollen unspeakable proud gay eternal incredible fearsome keen conscientious restless industrious amorous plain notorious inevitable implacable total widespread 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Words to Describe selfishness

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "selfishness" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "selfishness" are: sordid and hungry, indolent or insolent, obdurate and narrow, utter natural, and chaste and consistent. There are 995 other words to describe selfishness listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe selfishness suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "selfishness" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many selfishness adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is selfishness?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

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