All 5 Uses of
content
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- From his wrinkled flabby face he looked over fifty; his little eyes were lost in fat and they looked out grimly, sternly and discontentedly.†
Chpt 3.6 *discontentedly = in a manner that is dissatisfiedstandard 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.
- Katerina Ivanovna, however, put off expressing her feelings for the time and contented herself with treating her coldly, though she decided inwardly that she would certainly have to put Amalia Ivanovna down and set her in her proper place, for goodness only knew what she was fancying herself.†
Chpt 5.2contented = satisfied
- To help others one must have the right to do it, or else Crevez, chiens, si vous n'etes pas contents.†
Chpt 3.3
- He described minutely how he had taken her keys, what they were like, as well as the chest and its contents; he explained the mystery of Lizaveta's murder; described how Koch and, after him, the student knocked, and repeated all they had said to one another; how he afterwards had run downstairs and heard Nikolay and Dmitri shouting; how he had hidden in the empty flat and afterwards gone home.†
Chpt Epil.
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Let them rage to their hearts' content!†
Chpt 3.1 *
Definitions:
-
(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
-
(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.