Definition for Smug:

• Neat; spruce; affectedly nice in dress.

Synonyms for Smug:

• adj.

  •Victorian (adjective)
  • de-mure,
  • de mure,
  • up-tight,
  • up tight.
  •arrogant (adjective)
  • most swaggering,
  • peremptory,
  • most biggety,
  • superior,
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • more biggety,
  • smartier,
  • snootiest,
  • in solent,
  • insolent,
  • more know it all,
  • more cold shoulder,
  • most cold-shoulder,
  • Over-bearing,
  • more swaggering,
  • sniffiest,
  • pretentious,
  • high handed,
  • most bragging,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • most know-it-all,
  • over bearing,
  • puffed up,
  • most know it all,
  • high mighty,
  • more know-it-all,
  • sniffier,
  • in-solent,
  • smartiest,
  • more bragging,
  • know it all,
  • most cold shoulder,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • high-handed.
  •complacent (adjective)
  • most easy-going,
  • more selfpleased,
  • selfpleased,
  • more selfcontented,
  • self possessed,
  • selfrighteous,
  • self pleased,
  • most self contented,
  • most self-pleased,
  • most self-contented,
  • more easy-going,
  • more self pleased,
  • most selfcontented,
  • un concerned,
  • self assured,
  • self contented,
  • selfcontented,
  • self righteous,
  • more self-pleased,
  • selfpossessed,
  • most self pleased,
  • un-concerned,
  • more self-contented,
  • more easy going,
  • most pleased,
  • most easy going,
  • most selfpleased,
  • more self contented,
  • selfassured.
  •content (adjective)
  • at ease,
  • pleased as punch,
  • fat dumb and happy,
  • can't complain.
  •disrespectful (adjective)
  • saucy.
  •egoistic (adjective)
  • self serving,
  • selfserving,
  • self centered,
  • selfinvolved,
  • selfseeking,
  • self absorbed,
  • selfcentered,
  • selfabsorbed,
  • self seeking,
  • self involved.
  •holier-than-thou (adjective)
  • more high hat,
  • simon pure,
  • goody goody,
  • more simon pure,
  • goodygoody,
  • holier than thou,
  • most simonpure,
  • more highhat,
  • highhat,
  • simonpure,
  • most high hat,
  • pietistic,
  • more high-hat,
  • more simon-pure,
  • most simon pure,
  • most high-hat,
  • high hat,
  • most simon-pure,
  • more simonpure,
  • most highhat,
  • high-hat.
  •pleased with oneself (adjective)
  • priggish,
  • pompous,
  • self-righteous,
  • puffed-up,
  • snobbish,
  • stuck on oneself,
  • hotshot,
  • stuck-up,
  • conceited,
  • stuffy,
  • vainglorious.
  •presumptuous (adjective)
  • most overfamiliar,
  • over familiar,
  • more overfamiliar,
  • selfassertive,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • over weening,
  • over-familiar,
  • over confident,
  • self assertive,
  • self-assertive,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • over-weening,
  • overweening.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on high horse,
  • on one's high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • cocky,
  • confident,
  • crowing,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • Preening,
  • huffy,
  • assured,
  • ostentatious,
  • proud,
  • narcissistic,
  • vain,
  • condescending,
  • hoity-toity,
  • self-glorying,
  • swellheaded,
  • grand,
  • haughty.
  •sanctimonious (adjective)
  • in-sincere,
  • hypo critical,
  • in sincerest,
  • in-sincerer,
  • most deceiving,
  • in sincere,
  • in-sincerest,
  • hypo-critical,
  • pre-achiest,
  • pre achiest,
  • pre-achier,
  • pre achier,
  • in sincerer,
  • pre achy,
  • more deceiving,
  • pre-achy.
  •saucy (adjective)
  • flippest,
  • more weisenheiming,
  • smartalecky,
  • meddlesome,
  • most weisenheiming.
  •self-confident (adjective)
  • presumptuous.
  •self-important (adjective)
  • more swollen-headed,
  • most swollen headed,
  • more swollen headed,
  • swollenheaded,
  • swollen headed,
  • most swollen-headed,
  • most swollenheaded,
  • more swollenheaded,
  • selfimportant,
  • swollen-headed,
  • self important,
  • full hot air,
  • self-important.
  •self-righteous (adjective)
  • sanctimonious.
  •self-satisfied (adjective)
  • more selfcongratulatory,
  • more self-congratulatory,
  • most self congratulatory,
  • selfcongratulatory,
  • most self-congratulatory,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • more self congratulatory,
  • most selfcongratulatory,
  • full oneself,
  • self congratulatory,
  • self satisfied.
  •self-sufficient (adjective)
  • self-sufficing,
  • doing one's own thing,
  • self-sustaining,
  • out for number one,
  • Self-dependent,
  • on own,
  • self-sustained,
  • on one's own,
  • self-supported.
  •snotty (adjective)
  • la-de-da,
  • snobby,
  • snobbiest,
  • highfalutin,
  • highfalutin'.
  •uppity (adjective)
  • up pity,
  • up-pity,
  • high falutin.
  •vain (adjective)
  • foppish,
  • self-applauding,
  • superficial,
  • egocentric,
  • self-centered,
  • self-admiring,
  • self-flattering,
  • boastful.

• n.

  •
  • immodest,
  • patronizing.
  •contented (noun)
  • contented.
  •self-satisfied (noun)
  • pleased with oneself.

• Other synonyms:

  •biased
  • prejudiced.
  •overnice
  • prudish.

Paraphrases for Smug:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    sufficient, adequate.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    narrow-minded.

Antonyms for Smug:

• adj.

  • pleased with oneself
    modest, unhappy, unself-confident, humble, unsure.
  • Other antonyms:
    dowdy, diffident, discontent, scruffy, disheveled, sloppy, untidy, squalid, disorderly, mousy, filthy, shy, frowsy, sheepish, dirty, rumpled, slipshod, tousled, disorganized, foul, introverted, shabby, nasty, shrinking, seedy, sordid, sloven, bashful, retiring, discontented, unsystematic, messy, slovenly, unassertive, overmodest, timid, unkempt, mussy, disordered, Self-reproving.

Smug Sentence Examples:

• His broad face, distraught with terror, still bore traces of its erstwhile look of smug effrontery.

• Know that, of the two men, the man you affect to scorn is infinitely less a villain than this smug hypocrite.

Homophones for Smug:

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