COMPLACENT


Meaning of COMPLACENT in English

— complacently , adv.

/keuhm play"seuhnt/ , adj.

1. pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.

2. pleasant; complaisant.

[ 1650-60; complacent- (s. of complacens, prp. of complacere to take the fancy of, please, equiv. to com- COM- + placere to PLEASE ]

Syn. 1. smug, unbothered, untroubled.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .