网页feeling calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation, especially when this prevents you from feeling sympathy or understanding for others: They uttered self-complacent phrases about the improvement in the condition of the working class. self-satisfied uk / ˌselfˈsæt.ɪs.faɪd/ us / ˌselfˈsæt̬.ɪs.faɪd/ adjective disapproving.