self-satisfied

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ satisfied.

Adjective

self-satisfied (comparative more self-satisfied, superlative most self-satisfied)

1. Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.

   Synonyms: smug, complacent

   Coordinate terms: self-righteous; self-assured

   He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   • 1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:

     And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]

Translations

satisfied with oneself

• Bulgarian: самодоволен (bg) (samodovolen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自滿 / 自满 (zh) (zìmǎn), 得意 (zh) (déyì)

• Danish: selvtilfreds
• Dutch: zelfingenomen (nl)
• Finnish: itsetyytyväinen (fi), omahyväinen (fi)
• French: suffisant (fr)
• Georgian: თვითკმაყოფილი (tvitḳmaq̇opili)
• German: selbstzufrieden
• Greek: εφησυχασμένος (el) (efisychasménos)
• Hungarian: önelégült (hu)
• Japanese: 独り善がり (ja) (ひとりよがり, hitoriyogari), 自己満足する (ja) (じこまんぞくする, jikomanzoku suru)
• Polish: zadowolony z siebie
• Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj)
• Swedish: självbelåten (sv) c