content

Satisfied, pleased, contented.

Adjective

  1. Satisfied, pleased, contented.
    • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well...
    • You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit, and I don't even know what I am chasing....

Origin

From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).

Forms

more content contenter most content contentest

Derived

contentive contently contentsome miscontent noncontent uncontent

Adjective obsolete

  1. Contained.

Origin

From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.

Forms

more content most content

Interjection

  1. Alright, agreed.

Noun Entry 4

  1. That which is contained.

    Synonyms: contents

  2. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
    • Although eloquently delivered, the content of the speech was objectionable.
    • You can look up the chapter on special relativity in the table of contents.
    • Hugh admitting that he never had, and moreover that he couldn’t read, Mrs Varden declared with much severity, that he ought to he even more ashamed of himself than before, and strongly recommended him to save up his...

    1. (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.

      • Some online video creators upload new content every day.
      • Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.

    2. (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.

      (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.

      • He moved to California for the content.
  3. The amount of material contained.
    • Light beer has a lower alcohol content than regular beer.
  4. Capacity for containing.
    • Strong ships, of great content. - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];...
  5. The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
  6. The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.

Forms

contents

Derived

adult content content clause content coupling content creator content determination content farm content filtering content-free contentful content gap content house content key content knowledge contentless content management system content mill content note content psychology content repository contentual content warn content warning contentwise content word

Noun Entry 5

  1. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
    • They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
    • ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’ - 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
    • ‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’ - 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin, published 2009, page 287:
  2. Acquiescence without examination.
    • The sense they humbly take upon content. - 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
  3. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
    • So will I in England work your grace's full content. - 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio),...
  4. An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
  5. A member who votes in assent.

Derived

contentful contentless contentment contentness discontent malcontent miscontent to one's heart's content uncontent

Verb

  1. To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
    • You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
    • And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker,...
    • Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels. - 1741, I[saac] Watts, chapter 14, in The...

    Synonyms: elate hearten beatify enrapture begladden blissen bright cheer fetch cheer up cherish content delight elevate enbliss exhilarate fain gay gladden gladden someone's heart gratify happify happy jollify

  2. To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
    • Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you. - c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio),...

Forms

contents contenting contented

Derived

contentable