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COMPLACENT definition: 1. feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try…. Learn more.
The meaning of COMPLACENT is marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies : marked by complacency : self-satisfied. How to use complacent in a sentence.
COMPLACENT meaning: 1. feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try…. Learn more.
a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder: We’re finally making a profit, but there is no reason for complacency. complacent. adjective us / kəmˈplei·sənt / esp. disapproving. a complacent attitude.
Complacent definition: pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied. See examples of COMPLACENT used in a sentence.
A complacent person is very pleased with themselves or feels that they do not need to do anything about a situation, even though the situation may be uncertain or dangerous. We cannot afford to be complacent about our health.
Someone who is complacent has become overly content — the junk-food-eating couch potato might be feeling complacent about his health.
adjective. /kəmˈpleɪsnt/ (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. a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment. complacent about somebody/something We must not become complacent about progress. Extra Examples.
1. Satisfied with the current situation and unconcerned with changing it, often to the point of smugness: "a geologic cautionary tale for a complacent world accustomed to reliable infusions of cheap energy" (Paul Roberts). 2. Eager to please; complaisant.
A complacent person is very pleased with themselves or feels that they do not need to do anything about a situation, even though the situation may be uncertain or dangerous. We cannot afford to be complacent about our health.
