word-vault/dist/data/cards/co/complacent.json

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{
    "term": "complacent",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency",
            "sensetop": "complacent about somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We must not become complacent about progress.",
                    "contextForm": "complacent about somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Teachers are far from complacent about this problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This view seems alarmingly complacent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't go getting too complacent before the exams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nobody can afford to be complacent about security."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The council was criticized for its complacent attitude to child protection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government is in danger of becoming complacent now inflation has dropped."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Then you realize you are tired and getting complacent."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpleɪsnt/",
                "audio": "co/complacent/complacent__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpleɪsnt/",
                "audio": "co/complacent/complacent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pleasant’): from Latin complacent- ‘pleasing’, from the verb complacere."
}