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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024com•pla•cent /kəmˈpleɪsənt/USA pronunciation adj. - feeling complacency:After his raise in salary he became complacent and didn't work very hard.
See -plac-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024com•pla•cent (kəm plā′sənt),USA pronunciation adj. - 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. - pleasant;
complaisant.
- Latin complacent- (stem of complacēns, present participle of complacēre to take the fancy of, please, equivalent. to com- com- + placēre to please
- 1650–60
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged smug, unbothered, untroubled.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: complacent /kəmˈpleɪsənt/ adj - pleased or satisfied, esp extremely self-satisfied
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin complacēns very pleasing, from complacēre to be most agreeable to, from com- (intensive) + placēre to pleasecomˈplacently adv |