Definitions for complacent

complacent com·pla·cent

Spelling: [kuh m-pley-suh nt]
IPA: /kəmˈpleɪ sənt/

Complacent is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 695 anagrams from letters in complacent (accelmnopt).

Definitions for complacent

adjective

  1. pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied:
  2. pleasant; complaisant.

Origin of complacent

1650-60; Latin complacent- (stem of complacēns, present participle of complacēre to take the fancy of, please, equivalent to com- com- + placēre to Examples for complacent

The more people are comfortable and complacent, the more it plays into things that are destroying the world.

If she, Madame Lorilleux, had acted like that, Coupeau wouldn't be so complacent.

It also, my dear complacent American friends, offers you a glimpse of the future.

Her husband fell into the trap, and smiled with complacent superiority.

I wonder, sometimes, whether I was not too complacent over my proposed duties.

The final score flattered Brazil, which had looked ragged and complacent for much of the game.

But the scapegoat is convenient—and the rationalization is complacent.

Mrs. Bines, so complacent overnight, was the most disconsolate one of the group.

The complacent sophistries of her girlhood no longer answered for truth.

The unofficial rules that had kept Democrats in the majority with a complacent Republican minority were changing.

Word Value for complacent
Scrable

18

Words with friends

24

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