All 18 Uses of
content
in
Lonesome Dove
- She herself munched a plate of corn bread contentedly, now and then fanning herself.†
Chpt 36-37contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- He had grown noticeably more discontented in recent weeks—no one knew why.†
Chpt 89-90discontented = 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.
- So he stayed on and did his work, neither truly content nor bitterly discontented.†
Chpt 91-92
- Pea Eye was clearly the senior man, but Pea Eye had contentedly taken orders for thirty years; to expect him to suddenly start giving them was to expect the impossible.†
Chpt 99-100 *contentedly = in a satisfied manner
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Lippy, content beneath his bowler, turned and shook his lip in Dish's direction for a moment.†
Chpt 7-8
- He had never known what to think about women, and still didn't, but so far as actions went he was content to take his cue from the Captain, whose cue was plain.†
Chpt 11-12
- Though he was content to stick with the Captain and Gus and do his daily work, he found that the problem of women was one that didn't entirely go away.†
Chpt 11-12
- The older ones were more likely to be content with what they paid for; the young ones almost always got in love with her, and expected it to make a difference.†
Chpt 13-14
- She had stopped feeling silent and was content to let him loll for a few minutes.†
Chpt 17-18
- It irritated her that he had been content just to pull his mustache and head for the north without her.†
Chpt 26-27 *
- Now she was content to ignore her own failure, but he had no doubt that if she judged the time to be right she would try again.†
Chpt 44-45
- Gus seemed content to hold her hand and sit quietly.†
Chpt 44-45
- Maybe next time you'll be content to shoot when I want to shoot.†
Chpt 52-53
- There was not much to it, for the mules were content to follow the two men on horseback.†
Chpt 52-53
- Augustus stepped out of the tent, but Lorena was content to look through the flap.†
Chpt 60-61
- Now that he had got her to come on a trip he seemed well content.†
Chpt 66-67
- So he stayed on and did his work, neither truly content nor bitterly discontented.†
Chpt 91-92
- One kept Roscoe covered with the shotgun while the other emptied the contents of the saddlebags carelessly on the wet grass.†
Chpt 52-53
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.