Complacent vs Decadent - What's the difference?
complacent | decadent |
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.
Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
* - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
Luxuriously self-indulgent.
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As adjectives the difference between complacent and decadent
is that complacent is uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug while decadent is decadent.complacent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* (term) should not be confused with its homophone, complaisant.Synonyms
* smug * self-satisfiedDerived terms
* (l) * self-complacentExternal links
* * ----decadent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent ! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!