Self-satisfied

Origin

- + satisfied

Full definition of self-satisfied

Adjective

1. Satisfied with oneself; especially too satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
   He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 22, From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

Synonyms

• smug