- Word Combinations (adjective)
|part of speech:
||apt to share with or sacrifice for others; generous.
She'd inherited the entire estate, but she was unselfish and used the money to help out her castoff brother and her cousins.
- altruistic, benevolent, bighearted, generous, greathearted, liberal, openhanded
- similar words:
- big, considerate, lavish, magnanimous, munificent, selfless, unsparing
||benevolent, bounteous, bountiful, cheerful, liberal, profuse
||unselfishly (adv.), unselfishness (n.)