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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

Showing a willingness to put others' needs before one's own.

e.g. She was an unselfish friend who always lent a helping hand.

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Similar Words

Anti-cruelty

Bounteous

Bountiful

Caring

Charitable

Cruelty-free

Free

Fulsome

Generous

Large-hearted

Lenient

Liberal

Merciful

Munificent

Nonmaterialistic

Open

Openhanded

Other-directed

Overgenerous

Pitying

Samaritan

Self-forgetful

Self-giving

Self-questioning

Self-sacrificing

Selfless

Social-minded

Unsparing

Unstinting

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Opposite Words

Acquisitive

Avaricious

Avid

Begrudging

Chary

Cheap

Chintzy

Close

Costive

Covetous

Desirous

Economical

Egocentric

Envious

Frugal

Grabby

Grasping

Greedy

Grudging

Hoggish

Illiberal

Inner-directed

Materialistic

Mean

Mercenary

Mingy

Miserly

Niggard

Niggardly

Parsimonious

Penny

Penny-wise

Penurious

Petty

Provident

Rapacious

Resentful

Self-directed

Self-glorifying

Selfish

Small

Spare

Sparing

Stingy

Thrifty

Tight

Tightfisted

Uncharitable

Ungenerous

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Related Words

Altruistic

Attentive

Beneficent

Benevolent

Benignant

Big

Charitable

Compassionate

Considerate

Do-good

Eleemosynary

Extravagant

Good

Good-hearted

Greathearted

Handsome

Hospitable

Humane

Humanitarian

Kind

Kindhearted

Kindly

Lavish

Magnanimous

Openhearted

Overgenerous

Philanthropic

Prodigal

Profligate

Profuse

Samaritan

Softhearted

Solicitous

Spendthrift

Sympathetic

Tenderhearted

Thoughtful

Thriftless

Unthrifty

Warmhearted

Wasteful

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