altruistic
11altruistic — adj. Altruistic is used with these nouns: ↑love, ↑motive, ↑reason …
12altruistic — adjective a team of altruistic doctors who left their lucrative practices to open a clinic in Zambia Syn: unselfish, selfless, compassionate, kind, public spirited; charitable, benevolent, beneficent, philanthropic, humanitarian; literary… …
13altruistic — altruism ► NOUN 1) unselfish concern for others. 2) Zoology behaviour of an animal that benefits another at its own expense. DERIVATIVES altruist noun altruistic adjective altruistically adverb. ORIGIN from Italian altrui somebody else , from… …
14altruistic adaptation — altruistic adaptation. См. альтруистическая адаптация. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …
15altruistic donor — (al.troo.IS.tik doh.nur) n. A person who donates an organ to a stranger. altruistic donation n. Example Citation: Zell Kravinsky recently gave away $15 million, but that s only money. Today, the Jenkintown real estate investor is giving away… …
16altruistic hallucination — The term altruistic hallucination is indebted to the French noun altruisme, coined by the French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798 1857), which translates to unselfishness. The term hallucination altruiste was introduced in or shortly before… …
17altruistic — adjective see altruism …
18altruistic — altruistically, adv. /al trooh is tik/, adj. 1. unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic). 2. Animal Behav. of or pertaining to behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits… …
19altruistic — Synonyms and related words: almsgiving, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, committed, consecrated, considerate, dedicated, devoted, disinterested, eleemosynary, freehearted, generous, good, greathearted, humane …
20altruistic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unselfish, benevolent, charitable, selfless; see generous 1 , humane 1 , kind , philanthropic , unselfish . See Synonym Study at philanthropic . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. selfless, unselfish, humanitarian,… …
