content
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
Inflected forms:
form: more content
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: contenter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most content
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contentest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Satisfied, pleased, contented.
pos: adj
examples: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing.
gloss: Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’
‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’
Like an empress, I feel great content surrounded by the familiar sounds of laughter, bickering, rattling plates, clicking chopsticks, smacking lips, and noisy sipping of the longevity brew.
Such is the fullness of my heart's content.
Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.
gloss: Acquiescence without examination.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: The sense they humbly take upon content.
gloss: That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: So will I in England work your grace's full content.
gloss: An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
gloss: A member who votes in assent.
pos: noun
tags: UK
metonymically
uncountable
gloss: To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.
Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy recommend rigatoni in the Geometry of Pasta, and Christopher Boswell, the chef behind the Rome Sustainable Food project, prefers wholemeal paccheri or rigatoni in his book Pasta, on the basis that “the flavour of the whole grain is strong enough to stand up to the sharp and salty sheep’s milk cheese” (as I can find neither easily, I have to content myself with brown penne instead).
gloss: To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
Derived words: miscontent
uncontent
noncontent
contentful
contentless
contentment
contentness
discontent
malcontent
to one's heart's content
contentable
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