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Definition
satisfied- She grew more contented with age.
contented = satisfied
- It's hard to get her to consider a change because she is so contented with the way things are.
- In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.John Kenneth Galbraith -- London Guardian, July 8, 1989
- I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- He ate again, sighed with contentment.David Almond -- Skellig
- The baby slept, contented.David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness
- I was so contented and happy I felt as if I would like to sit right there without moving until I fell asleep.Maureen Daly -- Seventeenth Summer
- The most gifted among them, who might possibly become nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.George Orwell -- 1984
- And even if somehow I found a way to keep him contented, yet still there were limits, for he was mortal, and not young.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- At five o'clock I looked in on him, and found him seemingly as happy and contented as he used to be.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- In the lower bunk, Audrey was snoring, a low, contented hum that invited me to do the same.Tara Westover -- Educated
- Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- There's a great deal of discontent, you know.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- But if you must die, let me ask you this: wouldn't you rather die saying I'm a man than to die saying I'm a contented slave?Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- But on the way back, as he contentedly ate his prize, I was allowed to do as I wished.Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- While still full of his wrongs he had met Hyzenthlay and made himself a secret friend and adviser of the discontented does in the Right Fore.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- So you think there may be discontented does?Richard Adams -- Watership Down
contented = satisfied
contentment = satisfaction
contented = satisfied and unworried
contented = satisfied
discontent = dissatisfaction
(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)
contented = satisfied
contented = satisfied and unworried
contented = satisfied and unworried
contentment = satisfaction
discontent = dissatisfaction
(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)
discontent = dissatisfaction
(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)
contented = satisfied
contentedly = in a satisfied manner
contentment = satisfaction
discontented = not satisfied
(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)
discontented = not satisfied
(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)