complacent
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6.4
- adjective
- /kəmˈpleɪsənt/
:
autocomplaciente
- He became complacent after his recent promotion, believing he could stop working hard.
- become complacent
- too complacent
- grow complacent
Don't get proud, don't get complacent because complacency will stop your growth.
- Don't get proud, don't get complacent because complacency will stop your growth.
- So we'll never, never be complacent again.
- So I'm never really too complacent with myself or with what I've achieved.
- Like there's a, there's a thing because you, you, you get complacent and it's the comfort zone.
- So although things improving, you mustn't get complacent.
- And you know that I'm never complacent.
- And I think in some ways, achieving civil rights has made us very complacent about human rights.
- And so he wanted to make sure that I didn't become complacent.
- And we the people have been, many of us, most of us have been complacent for way too long.
- I'm never complacent and stagnant and just like, OK, enough's enough.
Examples
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It's happened so quickly both that people have become complacent about their liberty in that way.
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Folks, you should never, ever get complacent with your job.
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It's not just his words that are complacent, it's his actions as well.
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I think they run the risk of being a little complacent with their production.
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"Success could be bad if it makes you complacent, so you never leave that comfort zone."
Fiction book (1992) -
And I think in some ways, achieving civil rights has made us very complacent about human rights.
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We got, we got complacent, we got lazy, we got boring.
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Like the politicians, county residents along the Gulf had grown complacent over the years.
Academic text (2006) -
Yet today we've gotten so comfortable and complacent and we want everything to be easy.
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Our confidence in the immovability of our character may be complacent and premature.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
19
5.3
To believe you can do more than you really can
6
4.9
Too pleased with yourself in a way that annoys others
Being too satisfied with yourself and not seeing your mistakes
Antonyms
How Self-Satisfied
Surface Forms
Morphology
complacent = complacency (opaque) = com + plac + ent
Although analyzable into Latin-derived elements, these parts are not productive or familiar to an average B1 learner, so the adjective's meaning cannot be reliably derived from the components.
Etymology
Complacent comes from the Latin parts com- ('with') and placere ('to please') and shares the same root as please, so it originally meant being 'very pleased' with yourself. That's why a complacent person is 'too satisfied' and may not notice problems or danger.