complacent

[com·pla·cent]

Someone who is complacent has become overly content the junk food eating couch potato might be feeling complacent about his health.

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Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.

Adjective S.
contented to a fault; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"


a.
Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.


Complacent

Com*pla"cent , a. [L. complacens very pleasing, p. pr. of complacere; com- + placere to please: cf. F. complaisant. See Please and cf. Complaisant.] Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.
They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.

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Usage Examples

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

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Other Usage Examples

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

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