Definition of Self-satisfied

1. Adjective. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction. "A smug glow of self-congratulation"

Exact synonyms: Smug
Similar to: Content, Contented
Derivative terms: Smugness

2. Adjective. Contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions. "His self-satisfied dignity"
Exact synonyms: Complacent, Self-complacent
Similar to: Content, Contented
Derivative terms: Complacence, Complacency, Self-complacency

Definition of Self-satisfied

1. Adjective. satisfied with oneself; especially too satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-satisfied

self-restraint
self-retaining catheter
self-right
self-righteous
self-righteously
self-righteousness
self-rising
self-rising flour
self-rule
self-sabotage
self-sacrifice
self-sacrifices
self-sacrificing
self-same
self-satisfaction
self-satisfied (current term)
self-sealing
self-secure
self-seeded
self-seeker
self-seeking
self-selection
self-selections
self-serve
self-service
self-serving
self-similar
self-similarities
self-similarity
self-slaughter

Literary usage of Self-satisfied

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-Known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"So argues the self-satisfied burgher. If life were no more than a mere matter ... Even the material prosperity which the self-satisfied burgher desires will ..."

2. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"So argues the self-satisfied burgher. If life were no more than a mere matter ... Even the material prosperity which the self-satisfied burgher desires will ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
""Just look at that self-satisfied young puppy ! " Miss Joy's partner exclaimed, pointing to Gilbert. "Come, I'll take you up to him and see whether he'll ..."

4. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 by Hugh Blair Grigsby (1890)
"self satisfied with th1s, unless the committee thought themselves entitled to ask a further explanation.228 Mason continued : " I have heard that opinion ..."

5. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"but hardy nags, armed only with a sheaf of javelins ; the cultivated, self-satisfied royal slave in his silken robe ; the half-naked ..."

6. Spiritualism by John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter, Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (1855)
"THE self-satisfied. October 16, 1853. AT a meeting of the Circle of Progress, through Mrs. Sweet the following manifestation was made: Friends, ..."

7. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"He will walk about in the most happy ignorance of the general fun which his extreme self-satisfied bearing and peculiarities occasion; and instead of ..."

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