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adjective pleased, especially 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.
pleasant; complaisant.
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Origin of complacent 1650–60; <Latin complacent- (stem of complacēns, present participle of complacēre to take the fancy of, please, equivalent to com- com- + placēre to please
SYNONYMS FOR complacent 1 smug, unbothered, untroubled.
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OTHER WORDS FROM complacent com·pla·cent·ly, adverb non·com·pla·cent, adjective non·com·pla·cent·ly, adverb o·ver·com·pla·cent, adjective
o·ver·com·pla·cent·ly, adverb un·com·pla·cent, adjective un·com·pla·cent·ly, adverb
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH complacent complacent , complaisant, compliantWords nearby complacent compilation film, compile, compiled language, compiler, complacency, complacent , complain, complainant, complaint, complaisance, complaisant
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Example sentences from the Web for complacent The more people are comfortable and complacent , the more it plays into things that are destroying the world.
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The final score flattered Brazil, which had looked ragged and complacent for much of the game.
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The unofficial rules that had kept Democrats in the majority with a complacent Republican minority were changing.
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It also, my dear complacent American friends, offers you a glimpse of the future.
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But the scapegoat is convenient—and the rationalization is complacent .
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If Jefferson was complacent , Daveiss would act and act officially; thus the President, by contrast, would be fatally embarrassed.
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As they stood thus upon the threshold of their hopes, they looked suddenly contented and complacent .
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This hour of the complacent giant at least is his, and that he means to hold him bound through the eternities, men may hear.
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That which from other lips would have been resented as complacent insolence had to be endured with apparent calmness.
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Her husband fell into the trap, and smiled with complacent superiority.
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British Dictionary definitions for complacent adjective pleased or satisfied, esp extremely self-satisfied
an obsolete word for complaisant
Derived forms of complacent complacently , adverb Word Origin for complacent C17: from Latin complacēns very pleasing, from complacēre to be most agreeable to, from com- (intensive) + placēre to please
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