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Synonyms & Antonyms of complacent
1
having or showing a lack of interest or concern
- the auditors were taken aback by his complacent response to their findings of fraud
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2
having too high an opinion of oneself
- a complacent junior exec who was certain of his indispensability to the company
Synonyms for complacent
- assured,
- biggety
- (or biggity)
- [Southern & Midland],
- bigheaded,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- egoistic
- (also egoistical),
- egotistic
- (or egotistical),
- important,
- overweening,
- pompous,
- prideful,
- proud,
- self-conceited,
- self-important,
- self-opinionated,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- stuck-up,
- swellheaded,
- vain,
- vainglorious
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- arrogant,
- assumptive,
- bumptious,
- cavalier,
- chesty,
- disdainful,
- fastuous,
- haughty,
- high-and-mighty,
- high-hat,
- huffy,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- masterful,
- peremptory,
- pontifical,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- toplofty
- (also toploftical),
- uppish,
- uppity
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- holier-than-thou,
- pretentious
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The first known use of complacent was in 1760
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