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complacent

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com⋅pla⋅cent

  [kuhm-pley-suhnt]
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–adjective
1. pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
2. pleasant; complaisant.
Origin:
1650–60; < L complacent- (s. of complacēns, prp. of complacēre to take the fancy of, please, equiv. to com- com- + placēre to please

Related forms:
com⋅pla⋅cent⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. smug, unbothered, untroubled.
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com·pla·cent   (kəm-plā'sənt)   
adj.  

  1. Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned: He had become complacent after years of success.

  2. Eager to please; complaisant.


[Latin complacēns, complacent-, present participle of complacēre, to please : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + placēre, to please; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.]
com·pla'cent·ly adv.
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