adj. Function: adjective
feeling or showing an often excessive or unjustified satisfaction and pleasure in one's status, possessions, or attainments FF1C; had the complacent air of superiority that often mars an ignorant self-made man FF1E;
Synonyms: priggish, self-complacent, self-contented, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug
Related Words: assured, confident, self-assured, self-confident, self-possessed; conceited, egoistic, egotistic
Contrasted Words: humble, modest; diffident, shy