Snub vs Complacent - What's the difference?
snub | complacent |
Conspicuously short.
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*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
(obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
* Spenser
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To turn down; to dismiss.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
To sob with convulsions.
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.
As adjectives the difference between snub and complacent
is that snub is conspicuously short while complacent is uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.As a noun snub
is a deliberate affront or slight.As a verb snub
is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.snub
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnubNoun
(en noun)- I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
Derived terms
* snubbing post * snub lineVerb
(snubb)- For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
- He snubbed my offer to help.
Synonyms
* (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone deadEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).Verb
(snubb)- (Bailey)
