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1. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › complacentCOMPLACENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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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.

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   The meaning of COMPLACENT is marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies : marked by complacency : self-satisfied.

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4. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › complacentCOMPLACENT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   COMPLACENT meaning: 1. feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try…. Learn more.

5. www.collinsdictionary.com › english › complacentCOMPLACENT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   2 meanings: 1. pleased or satisfied, esp extremely self-satisfied 2. → an obsolete word for complaisant.... Click for more definitions.

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   Someone who is complacent has become overly content — the junk-food-eating couch potato might be feeling complacent about his health.

7. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definitioncomplacent adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation ...

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   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.

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   What is the meaning of complacent?

   • Complacent comes from the Latin word complacens, meaning pleasing. The meaning "pleased with oneself" was first recorded in 1767. Related words include complacently.

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   What does complaisant mean?

   • Conversely, complaisant is sometimes mistakenly used in contexts such as "complaisant about injustices," where complacent, with its sense of "marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies," should go. One aid is to remember that with the preposition "about," you probably want complacent.

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   Can we afford to be complacent?

   • We can not afford to be complacent. To dismiss him as an extreme rightwinger is lazy and complacent. The success of the vaccine taskforce and rollout had made the government complacent. And maybe we were getting a bit complacent. Maybe we were a bit complacent. Yet we must not be complacent: there is more to be done.

   COMPLACENT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Should we become complacent about progress?

   • complacent about somebody/something We must not become complacent about progress. Teachers are far from complacent about this problem. 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.

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   Can we afford to become complacent about our products?

   • We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products. But this complacent public attitude ignores the reality that such treatments require years -- if not decades -- to develop. They are, as it were, at once frightened and complacent. We'd become complacent and happy to sit on the laurels of our past successes.

   COMPLACENT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   Is this a time to be complacent about winning?

   • This is no time to be complacent. And he said he was not complacent about winning. We can not afford to be complacent. To dismiss him as an extreme rightwinger is lazy and complacent. The success of the vaccine taskforce and rollout had made the government complacent. And maybe we were getting a bit complacent. Maybe we were a bit complacent.

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