noun
Meaning 1
The state or quality of being smug.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
smugness
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The result or product of being smug.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: complacency, complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English smug Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English smugness From smug + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: самодоволство (samodovolstvo) — state or quality of being smug
- Catalan: suficiència — state or quality of being smug
- Chinese Mandarin: 得意 (déyì) — state or quality of being smug
- Chinese Mandarin: 自滿 /自满 (zìmǎn) — state or quality of being smug
- Dutch: zelfingenomenheid — state or quality of being smug
- Finnish: omahyväisyys — state or quality of being smug
- French: indulgence — state or quality of being smug
- French: complaisance — state or quality of being smug
- German: Selbstgefälligkeit — state or quality of being smug
- Greek: αυταρέσκεια (aftaréskeia) — state or quality of being smug
- Irish: bogás — state or quality of being smug
- Polish: samozadowolenie — state or quality of being smug
- Romanian: automulțumire — state or quality of being smug
- Romanian: autoîncântare — state or quality of being smug
- Spanish: petulancia — state or quality of being smug
- Spanish: autosuficiencia — state or quality of being smug
- Spanish: ufanía — state or quality of being smug