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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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 […]
Use self-satisfied when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Self-satisfied means Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant..
Common synonyms include smug, complacent, contented.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
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