"complacently" meaning in English

See complacently in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more complacently [comparative], most complacently [superlative]
Etymology: From complacent + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|complacent|ly}} complacent + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} complacently (comparative more complacently, superlative most complacently)
  1. In a complacent manner; overly calm and contented; not troubled.
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "complacent",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "complacent + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From complacent + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more complacently",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most complacently",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "complacently (comparative more complacently, superlative most complacently)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a complacent manner; overly calm and contented; not troubled."
      ],
      "id": "en-complacently-en-adv-BO-DhkhW",
      "links": [
        [
          "complacent",
          "complacent"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "homophone": "complaisantly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "complacently"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "complacent",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "complacent + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From complacent + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more complacently",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most complacently",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "complacently (comparative more complacently, superlative most complacently)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a complacent manner; overly calm and contented; not troubled."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "complacent",
          "complacent"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "homophone": "complaisantly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "complacently"
}

Download raw JSONL data for complacently meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.