All 7 Uses of
content
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- That's what I tell myself when I wake up, gasping, in my own bed in my own room with Ann snoring contentedly a few feet away.†
Chpt 19 *contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- I'm the only one chafing here, feeling discontented and powerless.†
Chpt 25discontented = not satisfiedstandard 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.
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- She pulls my hair back gently in her hands, her warm fingers weaving through it like sunlight, making me drowsy and content.†
Chpt 8 *
- Felicity shields the content of the note with the wall of her hand.†
Chpt 14
- I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl.†
Chpt 21
- I mean that we are no longer content to ride on your coattails, Gemma.†
Chpt 35
- Contents of a handbag strewn in the dirt.†
Chpt 2
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.