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egoistical

egoistical adjective: caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.

Adjective

egoistical (comparative more egoistical, superlative most egoistical)

  1. Caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.
    • For as long as the individual consciousness is not fully transformed and is still subject to egoistical impulses, so that there is not yet a complete and voluntary accord between the subjective will and universal Reason, the question must arise: who is to decide, in a particular situation of...1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
  2. (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egotistical (tending to talk excessively about oneself).

egoistical meaning in Hindi and Tamil

egoistical in Hindi

caring about the gratification of one's own desires
अहंकारी ahaṅkārī, घमंडी ghamaṇḍī

egoistical in Tamil

தன்னலத் தன்மை

Synonyms of egoistical

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Forms of egoistical

comparativemore egoistical
superlativemost egoistical

Origin of egoistical

From egoistic + -al.

Words formed from egoistical

Questions about egoistical

What does egoistical mean?
Egoistical means caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.
What is egoistical in Hindi?
Egoistical in Hindi is अहंकारी (ahaṅkārī), घमंडी (ghamaṇḍī). See Egoistical meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is egoistical?
Egoistical is an adjective.

Words near egoistical in the dictionary

  1. egoing
  2. egoism
  3. egoisms
  4. egoist
  5. egoistic
  6. egoistical
  7. egoistically
  8. egoists
  9. egoities
  10. egoitis
  11. egoity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: egoistical (page history and authors); egoistical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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