complacent

adjective15 collocationsAvg. frequency: 6.5

Used to specify the subject or area in which someone is overly self-satisfied.

A common intensifier for 'complacent'.

Indicates a very high degree of self-satisfaction.

Used to strongly deny that someone is complacent; the opposite of being complacent.

Used to express surprise at the level of someone's self-satisfaction.

Suggests that the self-satisfaction could lead to negative or harmful consequences.

Indicates a level of self-satisfaction that is worrying or causes concern.

Indicates a moderate or reasonable degree of self-satisfaction.

The most common way to describe the state of being self-satisfied.

Indicates a gradual change into a state of self-satisfaction.

A common and slightly informal way to say 'become complacent'.

Suggests an impression of being self-satisfied, which may or may not be true.

Emphasizes a slow, perhaps unnoticed, development into a state of self-satisfaction.

Used to describe the outward impression of being self-satisfied.

Refers to giving an impression of self-satisfaction through one's words.