complacent
/kəmˈpleɪsənt/
complacent adjective: uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
Adjective
complacent (comparative more complacent, superlative most complacent)
- Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
- He grew complacent as the years rolled on and the money rolled in.
- England will feel confident but not complacent against Ukraine, and the shock exit of France to Switzerland shows no-one can be taken lightly.2021 June 29, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Germany”, in BBC Sport
- Unduly unworried or apathetic with regard to a need or problem.
- He tried to paint his audience as complacent, yelling that if they weren't mad as hell then they weren't paying enough attention.
complacent meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
complacent in Bengali
- আত্মতুষ্ট
complacent in Malayalam
- സുസന്തുഷ്ടമായ, അലംഭാവമുള്ള, ആത്മസംതൃപ്തിയുള്ള, പ്രസന്നം, താല്പര്യമുള്ള
complacent in Kannada
- ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯ, ಸಂತೃಪ್ತಿಯುಳ್ಳ, ಆತ್ಮತೃಪ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ, ನಿರಾತಂಕವಾದ
Examples of complacent in a sentence
- Are we being too complacent in a space that now has one key-person risk?
- For a nation that values its children, folks are awfully complacent about saddling their kids with megadebt.
- Everyone must destroy even more carefully than his phobias, his “philias,” his complacent acceptance of first intuitions.
Synonyms of complacent
Forms of complacent
| comparative | more complacent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most complacent |
Origin of complacent
Borrowed from Latin complacēns (“very pleasing”), present participle of complacēre (“to please at the same time, be very pleasing”), from com- (“together”) + placēre (“to please”); see please and compare complaisant.
Words formed from complacent
Questions about complacent
- What does complacent mean?
- Complacent means uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
- What is complacent in Bengali?
- Complacent in Bengali is আত্মতুষ্ট. See Complacent meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is complacent?
- Complacent is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce complacent?
- Complacent is pronounced /kəmˈpleɪsənt/.
Words near complacent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: complacent (page history and authors); complacent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); complacent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); complacent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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