complacent

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

com·pla·cent BrE [kəmˈpleɪsnt] NAmE [kəmˈpleɪsnt] adjective ~ (about sb/sth) (usually disapproving)
too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling ↑complacency
•a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment
•We must not become complacent about progress.
Derived Word: ↑complacently

Word Origin:
[complacent complacently] mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pleasant’): from Latin complacent- ‘pleasing’, from the verb complacere.

Example Bank:
•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.
•Then you realize you are tired and getting complacent.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  self-satisfied, self-complacent