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complacent
[kuhm-pley-suhnt]
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.
agreeable and eager to please.
complacent
/ kəmˈpleɪsənt /
adjective
pleased or satisfied, esp extremely self-satisfied
an obsolete word for complaisant
Other Word Forms
- complacently adverb
- noncomplacent adjective
- overcomplacent adjective
- uncomplacent adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of complacent1
Word History and Origins
Origin of complacent1
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Example Sentences
We can’t be complacent when nearly half our high school seniors have “below basic” skills in math, and reading skills across the board are 10 points lower than they were 30 years ago.
And Kansas City’s Jeffrey Schmid, who dissented in October in favor of no cut, said on Friday, “I don’t think we have room to be complacent,” on price increases.
Under cross-examination, he accepted he forgot to switch on his body-worn camera and did not use his whistle as he approached the pedestrian crossing but insisted he had not been complacent that day.
Tina McKenzie, policy chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the increase in unemployment and drop in the number of people on payroll shows the government's "complacent attitude to jobs and businesses".
Observers have long shrugged off the danger with the complacent idea that students will see through their professors’ foolishness—if not right away, then when they enter the “real world.”
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