Synonyms for complacent
kəmˈpleɪ səntcom·pla·cent

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1. complacentadjective

   Synonyms:
   smug, self-satisfied

2. complacentadjective

   Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.

   Synonyms:
   smug, self-satisfied

3. complacentadjective

   Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.

   Synonyms:
   smug, self-satisfied

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1. complacent

   Synonyms:
   pleased, satisfied, content, pleasant, affable, kind, mannerly, acquiescent, amiable

   Antonyms:
   dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere, grudging

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1. complacent, self-satisfied, self-complacentadjective

   contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions

   "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"

   Synonyms:
   smug, self-satisfied, self-complacent

   Antonyms:
   discontent, discontented

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. complacentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pleased, satisfied, gratified, contented

2. complacentadjective

   Synonyms:
   civil, polite, courteous, affable, easy, obliging, urbane, COMPLAISANT, gracious

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1. List of paraphrases for "complacent":

   over-confident, self-satisfied, indulgent, softly-softly, self-congratulatory, satisfied, accommodating

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1. William Schaffner:

   It sounds as though we're in a locked room, wanting to get out, the door out of that locked room, we hope, is a vaccine. But in the meantime, we can't just be complacent.

2. Chief Executive Musk:

   This is the first time we've had a failure in seven years, so I think to some degree the company as a whole became maybe a little bit complacent.

3. Paul Jarris:

   In terms of preterm birth and infant mortality, the United States has the highest rates of any of the developed nations, our rates are more similar to that of developing nations. So the message, from my point of view, is that we cannot be complacent.

4. Timothy Snyder:

   A worry for the present and the future is that state collapse and global warming, separately or interacting, could end the exceptional period of peace to which we have grown accustomed, if we think that peace is automatic, we are likely to be complacent about the factors that bring it about.

5. Laura Meller:

   We have half a decade left, and we can’t be complacent, if we want the high seas to be healthy for the next century we have to modernize this system – now. And this is our one, and potentially only, chance to do that. And time is urgent. Climate change is about to rain down hellfire on our ocean.