Altruistic

English

Adjective

Altruistic (comparative more Altruistic, superlative most Altruistic)

1. Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

Adverbs for Altruistic

sincerely; fanatically; pompously; vaingloriously; publicly; ostentatiously; extremely; instinctively; characteristically; truly; genuinely; amazingly; essentially; quixotically.

Thesaurus

almsgiving; beneficent; benevolent; bighearted; bounteous; bountiful; charitable; committed; consecrated; considerate; dedicated; devoted; disinterested; eleemosynary; freehearted; generous; good; greathearted; humane; humanitarian; humble; kind; largehearted; liberal; magnanimous; modest; noble-minded; open-handed; philanthropic; sacrificing; self-abasing; self-abnegating; self-abnegatory; self-denying; self-devoted; self-effacing; self-forgetful; self-immolating; self-neglectful; self-neglecting; self-renouncing; self-sacrificing; self-unconscious; selfless; unacquisitive; unpossessive; unpretentious; unselfish; unsparing of self; welfare; welfare statist; welfarist

Etymology

See altruism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌæl.tɹuˈɪs.tɪk/
• (US) IPA: /ˌæl.tɹuˈɪs.tɪk/, /ˌɑl.tɹuˈɪs.tɪk/

Synonyms

• (regardful of others): beneficent, humane, philanthropic, selfless, unselfish

Antonyms

• (regardful of others): egoistic, misanthropic, selfish

Derived terms

• altruistic filicide
• altruistically

Related terms

• altruism
• altruist

Translations

regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

Armenian: ալտրուիստական (hy) (altruistakan), այլասիրական (hy) (aylasirakan) Catalan: altruista (ca) Croatian: altruističan (hr) Czech: altruistický (cs) Danish: altruistisk (da), uegennyttig (da) Dutch: altruïstisch (nl) Finnish: altruistinen (fi), epäitsekäs (fi), pyyteetön (fi) French: altruiste (fr) m. and f., désintéressé (fr) German: altruistisch (de)

Hungarian: altruista (hu), altruisztikus (hu) Italian: altruista (it) m. and f., altruistico (it) m. Norwegian: altruistisk (no) Polish: bezinteresowny (pl) m., altruistyczny (pl) m. Romanian: altruist (ro), generos (ro) Russian: альтруистический (ru) Spanish: altruista (es) Swedish: altruistisk (sv)