Altruistic Synonyms and Antonyms

altro͝oistik
Characterized by kindness and concern for others
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. kind
  2. beneficent
  3. benevolent
  4. benign
  5. benignant
  6. good
  7. selfless
  8. goodhearted
  9. kindhearted
  10. kindly
  11. largehearted
  12. self-abnegatory
  13. self-immolating
  14. self-neglectful
  15. self-unconscious
  16. unacquisitive
  17. unpossessive
Antonyms:
  1. egoistic
  2. selfish
  3. unsacrificing
Open-handed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unselfish
Of or concerned with charity
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. benevolent
  2. charitable
  3. eleemosynary
  4. philanthropic
  5. philanthropical
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. self-abasing
  2. self-neglecting
  3. self-renouncing
  4. welfarist

Words Related to Altruistic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Altruistic Sentence Examples

  • Animals can have more altruistic behavior than humans.

  • He seemed driven by purely altruistic reasons to organize a week-long celebration of Finnish design.

  • How do we know it is not our own selfish desires disguised by the unconscious into seemingly altruistic motives?

  • Not all the reasons for joining a youth service group are entirely altruistic!

  • Both of these are original and indispensable, but egoism has the priority, since there must be egoistic pleasure somewhere before there can be altruistic sympathy with it.

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