Smug

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent: "the smug look of a toad breakfasting on fat marsh flies” ( William Pearson).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
  • v. To make smug, or spruce.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
  • v. To make smug, or spruce.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Smooth; sleek; neat; trim; spruce; fine: also, affectedly proper; unctuous; especially, affectedly nice in dress; satisfied with one's own appearance; hence, self-satisfied in any respect.
  • Affectedly or conceitedly smart.
  • n. One who is affectedly proper and nice; a self-satisfied person.
  • To make smug or spruce: often with up.
  • To confiscate summarily, as boys used to confiscate tops, marbles, etc., when the game was played out of season.
  • To hush up.
  • n. A smith.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
  • Equivalent
    content    contented   
    Variant
    smugger    smuggest   
    Form
    smugged    smugging    smugness    smugly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spruce    tidy    self-satisfied   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bug    Doug    Lug    Zug    antidrug    bug    chug    debug    drug    dug   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts