All 7 Uses of
content
in
The Lords of Discipline
- I was playing good ball; I was in love with Annie Kate Gervais; I was taking Sunday afternoon walks with Abigail; my grades were good and my classes stimulating; there was an extraordinary harmony and contentment among my roommates.†
Chpt 3.30contentment = satisfaction
- "We've got them, Tradd," I said, holding a wet cloth over my hurt eye, amused at Tradd's prissy discontent.†
Chpt 4.38 *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.
- Men in shirt sleeves contentedly pushed their power mowers along the lawns of the suburbs.†
Chpt 4.41contentedly = in a satisfied manner
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- If this was an efficacious process for the training of men, I wanted no part of manhood, I was perfectly content with being a boy.†
Chpt 2.17 *
- There was an alarmed, nervous flutter to her eyelashes whenever she spoke in his presence, and I could not imagine the form and content of their conversations with each other when they were alone.†
Chpt 4.34
- We began opening the packages of Ex-Lax and emptying the contents of each box into the fudge.†
Chpt 2.20
- So why don't you gentlemen hand those six boxes over to the customs inspectors and do fifty pushups while we inspect the contents.†
Chpt 2.20
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.