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Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish campante.
Pronunciation
Adjective
kampante (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋ᜔ᜉᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- acting as if nothing happens; ignorant; indifferent
- smug; complacent
Tila kampante siya na wala na siyang kailangang tapusin.- He seemed complacent that he doesn't have anything needed to finish.
- year unknown, Sigay Ii' 2005 Ed., Rex Bookstore, Inc. (→ISBN), page 6:
- Kampante tayo noon sa lakas ng mga mananakop na Americano na hindi kailanman makakalmot man lang ng mga “mababang-uri” na Hapones.
- We felt smug under the power of the American occupants who have not received a single scratch from the "lower than " Japanese.
2003, Isagani R. Cruz, David Jonathan Bayot, Bukod na bukod: mga piling sanaysay, →ISBN:Huwag tayong pumayag na maging kampante tayo dahil nabasa na natin sina Derrida o Foucault o Lacan o Jameson o Eagleton o Ashcroft o Soyinka o Ngugi o Murthy; lagi nating isipin na marami pa tayong hindi nababasa.- We should not allow ourselves to become complacent because we have read Derrida or Foucault or Lacan or Jameson or Eagleton or Ashcroft or Soyinka or Ngugi or Murthy; we should always think that we have a lot we have not read.
Further reading
- “kampante”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018