Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Complacent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
complacent
adj : contented to a fault; "he had become complacent after years
of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity" [syn: {self-satisfied}]
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