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Definition: Self-satisfied |
Self-satisfiedAdjective1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation". 2. Contented to a fault; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-satisfied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-satisfiedSynonyms: complacent (adj), smug (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vanity | Self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente; (wrongheaded); wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant; (boastful); arrogant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Self-satisfied |
| English words defined with "self-satisfied": complacent, complacently ♦ Self-complacent, smirker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "self-satisfied": IGNORAMUS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're so smug and self-satisfied, Doctor (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Socrates | A self-satisfied, self-sufficient attitude amounts to nothing more than inefficiency. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was an ignoramus, Mumble was for learning famous. Mumble said one day to Dumble: "Ignorance should be more humble. Not a spark have you of knowledge That was got in any college." Dumble said to Mumble: "Truly You're self-satisfied unduly. Of things in college I'm denied A knowledge -- you of all beside." Borelli |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Self-satisfied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-satisfied" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 73 | 39,105 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-satisfied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vetëkënaqur (complacent, coxcombical, egotist, fatuous, jaunty, self sufficient, self-righteous, smug). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самодоволен (airy, bighead, cock-a-hoop, complacent, jaunty, self-righteous, smug). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自滿 (complacent), 自满 (Complacence, Complacency, self-satisfaction). (various references) | |
Czech | samolibý (overweening, smug). (various references) | |
Finnish | omahyväinen (complacent), itsepuolustusrakas (conceited), itseensätyytyväinen (complacent). (various references) | |
German | selbstzufrieden (complacent, smug), selbstherrlich (autocratic, autocratical, high handed, opinionated, self-opinionated), selbstgefällig (complacent, gloating, gloatingly, holier-than-thou, priggish, self complacent, smug, smugly). (various references) | |
Greek | αυτάρεσκοσ (complacent, self-complacent, self-important, smug). (various references) | |
Hungarian | önelégült (complacent, self confident, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-sufficient, smirk, smug). (various references) | |
Italian | soddisfatto di sé (smug), compiaciuto (complacent, pleased, smug). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 独り善がり (complacent, conceited, self-important). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとりよがり (complacent, conceited, self-important). (various references) | |
Korean | 자기 만족 (self-satisfaction). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-satisfiedsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaidoso (cockalorum, conceited, frivolous, grand, overweening, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, proud-spirited, uppish, vain, vainglorious), presumido (assuming, cock-a-hoop, cockalorum, fop, immodest, overweening, presumed, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, proud, proud-spirited, sidy, snooty, square-toed, swanky), enfatuado (coxcombical, foppish, infatuated, mad, overweening, pragmatical, sidy), auto-satisfeito. (various references) | |
Romanian | mulţumit de sine (complacent), automulţumit. (various references) | |
Russian | самодовольный (bighead, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, complacent, conceited, coxcombical, huffy, po-faced, priggish, self-complacent, self-righteous, smug, stuck-up). (various references) | |
Scottish | leagarra. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | samozadovoljan (smug). (various references) | |
Spanish | satisfecho de sí mismo (complacent). (various references) | |
Swedish | självbelåten (complacent, smug). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendi kendinden memnun, halinden memnun (complacent, contented, self-complacent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовдоволений (cock-a-hoop, complacent, coxcombical, jaunty, opinioned, prick-eared, self-approving, self-complacent, self-righteous, smug, stuck up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tự mãn (bumptious, cocksy, cocky, consequential, coxy, donnish, self-content, self-contentment, self-sufficient, self-sufficing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "self-satisfied" (pronounced 'Self`-sat"is*fied'): Citified, Cornified, Countrified, Multiramified, Princified, Semiacidified, Semilapidified, Semivitrified, Unossified, unstratified, Wittified. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-f-i-i-l-s-s-s-t" | |
-4 letters: detassels, falsified, falsifies, falsities, idealises, idealists, salsifies, satisfied, satisfies. | |
-5 letters: assisted, daffiest, dateless, deflates, detassel, dialists, diseases, disseats, disseise, distaffs, fadeless, fealties, felsites, fetiales, fetialis, fideists, filiated, filiates, idealess, idealise, idealist, idlesses, leadiest, leafiest, safetied, safeties, salified, salifies, seasides, seatless, silesias, steadies, tasseled, tideless. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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