kampante

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish campante.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kamˈpante/ [kɐmˈpan̪.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: kam‧pan‧te

Adjective

kampante (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋ᜔ᜉᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. acting as if nothing happens; ignorant; indifferent
2. 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 [human]" 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