All 5 Uses of
content
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- The pup looked proudly back at the men, and then flopped down in the dust and beat its tail contentedly on the ground.†
Chpt 8 *contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- His hand reached in and contentedly scratched under the testicles.†
Chpt 10
- I like it in there," she said contentedly.†
Chpt 13
- Wilson, tearing a slab of meat with his teeth, sighed with contentment.†
Chpt 13contentment = satisfaction
- Lines of weariness around the eyes, lines of discontent down from the corners of the mouth, breasts lying heavily in little hammocks, stomach and thighs straining against cases of rubber.†
Chpt 15discontent = dissatisfactionstandard 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.