All 13 Uses of
content
in
Watership Down
- They'll be juniors, discontented fellows like me.
p. 15..7 (definition 1)discontented = 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.
- Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep.
p. 91..7 (definition 1)contented = satisfied
- Hazel contented himself with organizing the diggers and left it to Strawberry to say what was actually to be done.
p. 143..9 (definition 1)
- So you think there may be discontented does?
p. 194..8 (definition 1)discontented = 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.
- But whether she did or not, here, evidently, was the rabbit who had told Holly and his companions about the troubles of Efrafa and the discontent of the does.
p. 321..5 (definition 1)discontent = 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.
- There's a great deal of discontent, you know.†
p. 328..1 (definition 1) *
- 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.
p. 385..2 (definition 1)discontented = 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.
- As Bluebell said, any rabbits who felt discontented could always go back to Efrafa; and the thought of all that they had faced together was enough to take the sting out of anything that might have made a real quarrel.
p. 395..2 (definition 1)
- The contentment of the does spread to everyone else, until one evening Hazel remarked that he felt a perfect fraud as Chief Rabbit, for there were no problems and hardly a dispute to be settled.
p. 395..3 (definition 1)contentment = satisfaction
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- "To everyone's surprise, El-ahrairah immediately replied that he would be content with a jury of elil: and Prince Rainbow said that he would bring them that night.†
p. 174..5 (definition 2)
- But men have made the same mistake more than once—left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war.†
p. 187..7 (definition 2) *
- Hazel, who was ready to accept advice from anybody when he thought it was good, listened to most of what he said and was content to leave it to Bigwig—for whom, naturally, Blackavar entertained a tremendous respect—to see that he did not overreach himself in his warm-hearted, rather candid zeal.†
p. 385..8 (definition 2)
- Rowsby Woof used to run loose from evening till dawn the next day; and not content with keeping men and boys out of the garden, he would go for any animals he found there—rats, rabbits, hares, mice, even moles—and kill them if he could.†
p. 397..2 (definition 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) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.