complacently
adjectiveHow many syllables in complacently?
There are 4 syllables in the word complacently.How to pronounce complacently:
Definition of complacently:
- complacently (adjective):
- marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies marked by complacency self-satisfied
Synonyms for complacently:
apathetic
calm
careless
casual
detached
disinterested
incurious
indifferent
insouciant
nonchalant
numb
perfunctory
stoic
unconcerned
uncurious
uninterested
Antonyms for complacently:
anxiously
discontentedly
discreetly
egolessly
humbly
insecurely
modestly
reservedly
troubledly
unassumingly
unboastfully
uneasily
unhappily
unostentatiously
unpretentiously
unsurely
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- ignorantly
- omnipotent
- predetermined
- congregated
- Aphrodite
- espionage
- mentality
- capacious
- simultaneous
- even-tempered
- acceptation
- gratuitously
- surmountable
- memorial
- advertisement
- etcetera
- policewoman
- intersected
- overreact
- syllabary
- mischievousness
- convalescing
- bilabial
- inexpensive
- connubial
- extirpation
- practically
- unreadable
- underwhelming
- presumably
- democracy
- omnipresent
- irascible
- inhabitant
- innocuous
- adulation
- tergiversate
- nonsensical
- heretical
- intricacy
- misadventured
- benevolent
- disyllabic
- delicacy
- expectantly
- courageousness
- accompanied
- austerity
- silhouetted
- unbearably
- … more
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