complacent

1. 1.

   contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions

   “he had become complacent after years of success”

   “his self-satisfied dignity”

   Synonymsself-satisfiedself-complacent

   Similarcontented

Questions about complacent

What does complacent mean?

complacent means "contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions".

How many syllables are in complacent?

complacent has 3 syllables: com-pla-cent. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /kəmˈpleɪsənt/.

What is another word for complacent?

Close synonyms include self-satisfied, self-complacent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is complacent a common word?

complacent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with complacent?

1 word rhymes with complacent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.