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self-satisfied

adj

Etymology

From self- + satisfied.

  1. derived from satisfien
  2. inherited from satisfyed
  3. formed as self-satisfied — “self- + satisfied”

Definitions

  1. Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied

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

    • He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
    • 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.
    • And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at self-satisfied. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01self-satisfied02smug03offensively04offensive05indignation06self-righteous07smugly

A definitional loop anchored at self-satisfied. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at self-satisfied

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA