COMPLACENT


Meaning of COMPLACENT in English

adjective

feeling or showing an often excessive or unjustified satisfaction and pleasure in one's status, possessions, or attainments

had the complacent air of superiority that often mars an ignorant self-made man

Synonyms: priggish, self-complacent, self-contented, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug

Related Word: assured, confident, self-assured, self-confident, self-possessed; conceited, egoistic, egotistic

Contrasted words: humble, modest; diffident, shy

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