complacent

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    contented to a fault

Word Origin

complacent
complacent: see complaisant
complacent (adj.)
1650s, "pleasing," from Latin complacentem (nominative complacens) "pleasing," present participle of complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacence). Meaning "pleased with oneself" is from 1767. Related: Complacently.

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Example

1. Naval nuclearisation makes this analysis look recklessly complacent .
2. On the way up , macroeconomists were not wholly complacent .
3. Germany was battered by the dotcom bust ; that made france complacent .
4. Indian policymakers are not asking such a complacent question .
5. That is too complacent and too one-sided .

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