altruistic

Adjective

Meaning

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

selfless beneficent good liberal noble humane brotherly giving kind ethical humanitarian helpful generous orthogonal charitable
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Antonyms

egoistic provident scrooge pontifical cavalier thrifty
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Related terms

altruism altruist

Phrases with the word

altruistic love altruistic person altruistic woman altruistic mission most altruistic less altruistic

Anagrams

truistical ultraistic

Examples

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. Pitirim Sorokin

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. Arundhati Roy

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. Benjamin Spock

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. Richard Dawkins

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior. Ted Malloch

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. Mortimer Adler

Close letter words and terms

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