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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English satisfied English self-satisfied From self- + satisfied.
Meanings
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Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]
1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas: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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more self-satisfied | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most self-satisfied | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Synonyms
Translations (19)
cmn 得意 (satisfied with oneself) · fi itsetyytyväinen (satisfied with oneself) · ru самодово́льный (satisfied with oneself) · ja 自己満足する (satisfied with oneself) · ka თვითკმაყოფილი (satisfied with oneself) · es autosatisfecho (satisfied with oneself) · ja 独り善がり (satisfied with oneself) · pl zadowolony z siebie (satisfied with oneself) · fi omahyväinen (satisfied with oneself) · de selbstzufrieden (satisfied with oneself) · el εφησυχασμένος (satisfied with oneself) · nl zelfingenomen (satisfied with oneself) · da selvtilfreds (satisfied with oneself) · cmn 自滿 /自满 (satisfied with oneself) · bg самодоволен (satisfied with oneself) · sv självbelåten (satisfied with oneself) · es satisfecho de sí mismo (satisfied with oneself) · hu önelégült (satisfied with oneself) · fr suffisant (satisfied with oneself)