The meaning of COMPLACENT is marked by satisfaction with the status quo especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies : marked by complacency.

COMPLACENT definition: 1. feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try…. Learn more.

COMPLACENT definition: pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied. See examples of …

Definition of complacent adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling …

complacent self-satisfied; smug; unbothered: He is too complacent to make changes.

Someone who is complacent has become overly content — the junk-food-eating couch potato might be feeling complacent about his health. The literal meaning of this word's Latin root is "very pleased," but even though complacent people may seem pleased with themselves, we are rarely pleased with them.

Complacent definition: Satisfied with the current situation and unconcerned with changing it, often to the point of smugness.