COMPLACENT


Meaning of COMPLACENT in English

/ kəmˈpleɪsnt; NAmE / adjective

complacent (about sb/sth) (usually disapproving ) too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency :

a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment

We must not become complacent about progress.

►  com·pla·cent·ly adverb

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WORD ORIGIN

mid 17th cent. (in the sense pleasant ): from Latin complacent- pleasing, from the verb complacere .

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.