complacent
adjective/kəmˈpleɪsnt/
/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- Teachers are far from complacent about this problem.
- This view seems alarmingly complacent.
- Don't go getting too complacent before the exams.
- Nobody can afford to be complacent about security.
- The council was criticized for its complacent attitude to child protection.
- The government is in danger of becoming complacent now inflation has dropped.
- Then you realize you are tired and getting complacent.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pleasant’): from Latin complacent- ‘pleasing’, from the verb complacere.
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