Usually means: Satisfied, unconcerned about potential dangers.
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  1. complacent: Merriam-Webster
  2. complacent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complacent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complacent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complacent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Complacent, complacent: Wordnik
  7. complacent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. complacent: Wiktionary
  9. complacent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. complacent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. complacent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Complacent, complacent: Dictionary.com
  13. complacent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Complacent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. complacent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. complacent: Rhymezone
  17. complacent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. complacent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. complacent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. complacent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. complacent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. complacent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. complacent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. complacent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. complacent: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complacent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (complacent)

▸ adjective:  Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
▸ adjective:  Unduly unworried or apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.

Similar:
self-satisfied, content, self-complacent, smug, satisfied, comfortable, well-pleased, gruntled, complacential, flattering, more...

Opposite:
dissatisfied, discontent, uneasy, restless, vigilant

Types:
satisfied, content, contented, satisfied with, more...

Phrases:
self complacent, not complacent, resigned complacent give up, be complacent, opposite of complacent, more...

Adjectives:
little, self, first, own, same, whole, long, deferred, complaisant, habitual, public

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Similar:
self-satisfied, content, self-complacent, smug, satisfied, comfortable, well-pleased, gruntled, complacential, flattering, more...

Opposite:
dissatisfied, discontent, uneasy, restless, vigilant

Types:
satisfied, content, contented, satisfied with, more...

Phrases:
self complacent, not complacent, resigned complacent give up, be complacent, opposite of complacent, complacent failure, person who is complacent, being complacent, more...

Adjectives:
little, self, first, own, same, whole, long, deferred, complaisant, habitual, public

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     light brown,     soft pink, more...



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