Independent
Independent adjective - Able to take care of oneself or itself without outside help.
Self-serving and independent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Self-serving" instead an adjective "Independent".
Self-serving
Self-serving adjective - Overly concerned with one's own desires, needs, or interests.
Independent and self-serving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Independent" instead an adjective phrase "Self-serving".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In some ways, we tend to stereotype dogs more like the stereotypical woman, as dependent, passive, and happily subordinated, and cats more like stereotypical men, as independent, self-serving hunters, even as we masculinize dogs (with the exception of poodles) and feminize cats.
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