smugness
smugness · smugnesses
Selbstgefälligkeit
The state or quality of being smugThe state or quality of being smug.
US/smˈʌɡnəs/
» Islam filled me with smugness and contempt for disbelievers.
doemaar14 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(uncountable)The state or quality of being smug.
Selbstgefälligkeit
(countable)The result or product of being smug.
More definitions
- an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
Examples
1 sentencesIslam filled me with smugness and contempt for disbelievers.
Translations
4 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
state or quality of being smug:
Forms
plural: smugnesses| Singular | smugness |
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regular
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedsmug
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.