Contented vs Smug - What's the difference?
contented | smug |
(content)
satisfied
* 1795 , ISSN 0037-7333, volume 4, number 3, June 2010, page 72:
Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
(obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* De Quincey
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) To make smug, or spruce.
* Dryton
As verbs the difference between contented and smug
is that contented is past tense of content while smug is to make smug, or spruce.As adjectives the difference between contented and smug
is that contented is satisfied while smug is irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.contented
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- "I shall now die contented ," [Boswell] breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day."
smug
English
Adjective
(smugger)- Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
- They be so smug and smooth.
- the smug and scanty draperies of his style
- A young, smug , handsome holiness has no fellow.
Synonyms
* self-satisfied * complacentDerived terms
* smugly * smugnessVerb
(smugg)- Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.