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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarycom·pla·cent \kəm-ˈplā-sənt\ adjective ETYMOLOGY Latin complacent-, complacens, present participle of complacēre to please greatly, from com- + placēre to please — more at please DATE 17601. marked by complacency : self-satisfied a complacent smile2. complaisant 13. unconcerned• com·pla·cent·ly adverbEnglish Etymologycomplacent 1650s, from L. complacentem "pleasing," prp. of complacere(see complacence). Related: Complacently (1816).Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7complacentcom·pla·cent / kEm5pleisnt / adjective ~ (about sb / sth) (usually disapproving) too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency 自满的；自鸣得意的；表现出自满的: a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment 对失业增加抱满不在乎的危险态度 We must not become complacent about progress. 我们决不能因进步变得自满。 • com·pla·cent·ly adv.Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishcomplacent adj. VERBS appear, be, seem, sound | become, get, grow ADV. extremely, remarkably, very | far from Teachers are far from complacent about this problem. | rather, somewhat | alarmingly, dangerously This view seems alarmingly complacent. PREP. about It is vital that we do not get complacent about this disease. OLTcomplacent adj.⇨ smugWebster's Third New International Dictionary, UnabridgedSearch result show the entry is found in: self-complacentcom·pla·cent\-ənt\ adjectiveEtymology: Latin complacent-, complacens very pleasing, present participle of complacēre to please greatly, from com- + placēre to please — more at please1. a. : marked by sometimes unwarranted, uncritical, and irritating satisfaction and pleasure at one's own personality, accomplishments, or situation < complacent when they should have been self-critical — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < the complacent ones, to those who love themselves much but not too wisely — M.R.Cohen > b. : marked by or as if by unruffled or blasé satisfaction about the security of one's position or by careless acceptance of events around one : disinclined to act, to change, or to guard < the complacent case of obesity — Arnold Bennett > < in that complacent old world … youth did not easily feel the impact of national problems — John Buchan >2. a. : feeling or showing complaisance or desire to please < the University of Colorado courteously released me from my contract, but the Garrett Biblical Institute was less complacent — R.M.Lovett > b. : marked by smooth even contented ease without notable activity, tension, or stress < townfolk made a complacent living by trading with countryfolk — American Guide Series: Texas >3. of a tree or a forest : marked by evenness and regularity in the growth of annual rings regardless of different conditions in different years — opposed to sensitiveSynonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied, smug, priggish: complacent may imply a feeling of assured well-being and absence of worry or complaint < the people who suffer most from their conscience are obviously the sensitive and high-minded, while self-approbation comes most easily to the complacent and fortune-favored Jack Horners — M.R.Cohen > It may suggest a gloating superiority or a blameworthy lassitude and lack of drive < his insufferable smile was more complacent than ever — A. Conan Doyle > < the chief occasion on which he aspired to rise above the level of complacent mediocrity — H.E.Nettles > self-complacent and self-satisfied stress satisfaction at one's own personality or situation and may suggest ill-based pride, self-deception, depreciation of others, indolent or blind inactivity < the strong, self-complacent Luther declares … that “God himself cannot do without wise men” — R.W.Emerson > < those flaunting childish family portraits, with their farce of sentiment and smiling lies, and innocence so self-conscious and self-satisfied — W.M.Thackeray > < Stroeve, eager for praise and naively self-satisfied, could never resist displaying his work — W.S.Maugham > smug indicates accustomed feelings about oneself of superiority, rectitude, or utter security < our smug conviction that somehow we are more virtuous than the rest of the world, and that everyone should realize it — Richard Watts > < a smug and arrogant look about him, as is often the case with men who have unexpectedly acquired great power or great wealth — Kenneth Roberts > smug often suggests narrow provincialism. priggish may suggest finical adherence to one's ideas or notions, perhaps ill-based, and an odious self-righteousness < there is something artificial and even priggish about Goethe's healthiness, as there is about Baudelaire's unhealthiness — T.S.Eliot > < that unpromising young man with high collar and pince-nez whose somewhat priggish air of superiority infuriated most of the Democrats — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 >

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