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content as in:  content with how things are

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    He was at home with the silence of the desert, and he was content just to look at the trees.  (source)
    content = satisfied or happy
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    So Soda had to content himself with bouncing up and down on the bed and pounding on my shoulder.  (source)
    content = satisfy
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    "Yes'm," I said, not bothering to add that she repeated herself so much that all a body had to do was listen to the first few minutes of her lesson to be free to daydream to her heart's content.  (source)
    content = satisfaction
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    And even if somehow I found a way to keep him contented, yet still there were limits, for he was mortal, and not young.  (source)
    contented = satisfied
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    He ate again, sighed with contentment.  (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
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    The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.†  (source)
    discontent = dissatisfaction
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Mae surveyed it all and sighed contentedly.  (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
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    Being discontented with what he considered the inadequate treatment of land travel in a class unit on 'Transportation,' he agreed that time was too limited to do justice to everything.†  (source)
    discontented = not satisfied
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Brickz follows the piece of bologna I dangle in front of him all the way to his spot in the kitchen. He sits there all content, chomping on it and the rest of his food.  (source)
    content = satisfied
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    And although he said nothing when O-lan pulled the tender cooked flesh apart with her chopsticks, and although he said nothing when she gave great pieces of it to the old man and to the boys and even filled the mouth of the girl with it and ate of it herself, he himself would have none of it, contenting himself with the cabbage he had bought.†  (source)
    contenting = satisfying
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    He stared vaguely, discontentedly, in the direction of the windows.†  (source)
    discontentedly = in a manner that is dissatisfied
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontentedly reverses the meaning of contentedly. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    To Danforth directly: And I think you will want to know, from each and every one of them, what discontents them with you!†  (source)
    discontents = (noun) causes of dissatisfaction  OR  (verb) causes dissatisfaction
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontents means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contents--which in this case referred to people who are contented prior to being reverse. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    I read Caroline a story and put her to bed feeling blessed for my family's health, and I can't quite tell if this growing sense of contentedness is from exhaustion or the wine.†  (source)
    contentedness = the state of being satisfied
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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common meaning

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    GSS had also licensed preexisting virtual worlds from their competitors, so content that had already been created for games like Everquest and World of Warcraft was ported over to the OASIS, and copies of Norrath and Azeroth were added to the growing catalog of OASIS planets.  (source)
    content = material
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    The oxygen content is decreased.  (source)
    content = that is contained within
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    I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth.  (source)
    contents = what was inside it
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    He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance.†  (source)
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    Unwrapping it back in my hotel room, I crumbled the contents across a leaf of cigarette paper.  (source)
    contents = things inside
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    "Sometimes," I told him, "you must be content with ignorance."†  (source)
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    " 'Answers to the name of Buck,' " the man soliloquized, quoting from the saloon-keeper's letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents.  (source)
    contents = contained items
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    The salt content in seawater is so high that it is considered a poison.†  (source)
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    He swallowed the contents and returned it to me.  (source)
    contents = what it held
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    It's not the content of the letter so much as the tone.†  (source)
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    But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.  (source)
    contents = what was inside it
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    After that, they can kill everyone to their heart's content, if that's what they want to do.†  (source)
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    Your husband, Sixto Ortega, left this house and all of its contents to you and your daughter.†  (source)
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