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CONTENTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contented mean?
• CONTENTED (adjective)
The adjective CONTENTED has 1 sense:
1. satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are
Familiarity information: CONTENTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are
Synonyms:
content; contented
Context example:
a contented smile
Similar:
complacent; self-complacent; self-satisfied (contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions)
satisfied (filled with satisfaction)
self-satisfied; smug (marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction)
Also:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)
Antonym:
discontented (showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing)
Derivation:
contentedness (the state of being contented with your situation in life)
Context examples
They patted him on the head and passed on, contented and pleased with their own daring.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And that amazes me most in you, Steerforth—that you should be contented with such fitful uses of your powers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mine is so elastic, it never seems full now, and I used to be quite contented with my family.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Another change in my patient. At five o'clock I looked in on him, and found him seemingly as happy and contented as he used to be.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Aft I walked to the cabin companion, where I contented myself with hailing below.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City," continued the Scarecrow, "we might all be happy together."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Be happy, my dear Victor, replied Elizabeth; there is, I hope, nothing to distress you; and be assured that if a lively joy is not painted in my face, my heart is contented.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He contented himself with the knowledge that even then the original type-written manuscript was reposing in the office of a New York magazine.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He tried again and again, then contented himself with crawling about on hands and knees.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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