Usually means: Putting others' needs before yours.
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  1. unselfish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unselfish: Merriam-Webster
  3. unselfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unselfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unselfish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unselfish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unselfish, unselfish: Wordnik
  8. unselfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unselfish: Wiktionary
  10. unselfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unselfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unselfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unselfish: Dictionary.com
  14. unselfish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unselfish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. unselfish: Rhymezone
  17. unselfish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. unselfish: FreeDictionary.org
  19. unselfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unselfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unselfish: Legal dictionary

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  1. unselfish: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Not selfish.

Similar:
self-denying, public-spirited, generous, self-sacrificing, self-giving, sharing, self-forgetful, unegoistic, unselfpitying, unegoistical, more...

Opposite:
selfish, self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic

Phrases:
to make unselfish, more...

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Similar:
self-denying, public-spirited, generous, self-sacrificing, self-giving, sharing, self-forgetful, unegoistic, unselfpitying, unegoistical, more...

Opposite:
selfish, self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic

Phrases:
to make unselfish, more...

Colors:
    sky blue,     lavender,     soft pink,     golden yellow,     coral, more...



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