noun
definition
(except in phrases) Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
verb
definition
To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
example
You can't have any more - you'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
definition
To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite
adjective
interjection
definition
Alright, agreed
Examples of content in a Sentence
I'm content to just move forward.
It will analyze and record the nutritional content of your meal.
Her stomach was content, and she hadn't thrown up.
Arnie tripped, the content of his fist flying free over the boulders to the cliff's edge.
He was more than content to spend his first day of skiing on the bunny slope.
She sighed, content to rest atop him.
He seemed content to study her.
It was plain that Cade was content with things the way they were, but she wanted more.
Sarah and Giddon both seemed content with the arrangement, but she felt guilty about the money she earned... or didn't earn.
It was so peaceful and she felt so content with his arms around her.
Lori would be content with things the way they were.
Pregnant Martha abstained, content with an iced tea.
The feds ignored the newcomers after a few looks, content to stroll and chat as if nothing were amiss anywhere.
Tammy was finally allowed to swim to her heart's content... apparently for the first time.
Healing his scars made her feel a familiar sense of exhaustion, and she retreated to the couch in front of the TV, content to doze and recover.
Used to being alone, she was content with her own company.
I doubt the trip will ever come about as each of us seems content with our hands-off, albeit revered, relationship.
He was far too content holding the petite woman he didn't dare trust.
He would.ve been content to stay in his cottage for another hundred years or never again visit the mortal world.
The pay per click (PPC) business is a way to advertise online to people who did a specific search in a search engine like Google or who are viewing content on a certain topic.
She added, We didn't know the content of the notebook at that time.
Well, I'm sure Fred wasn't a hooker but I'm content to accept him on a present day basis, regardless of why he's so protective of his past.
It wasn't the open road wanderers I envied but the home town golfers; they seemed so content in their pastoral surroundings.
Darian looked at her, content with cookies resting on one thigh and the cat on the other.
Most of the guests seemed content in the parlor, listening to Pumpkin Green ramble away about his upcoming Fourth of July water fight.
He was content with his life, and yet, at her words, he remembered what it was like when he truly was happy.
Are you content with yourself and with your life?
But I've always been content to let someone else wait on me.
I'm content to give them fair value for their bucks and try my best to see that they enjoy themselves.
I'm not content with you here.
We were content to allow him this small title of uniqueness knowing it was killing him to be so close to a scientific miracle with hands tied and mouth gagged against announcing his findings to the world.
The sense of peace descended upon her again, and she relaxed against him, content to her soul to be surrounded by his scent and heat.
Yeah, ol' Jeff was content.
The god and his viceregent, the king, had long ceased to disturb tenancy, and were content with fixed dues in naturalia, stock, money or service.
Since the Poles were at first unyielding, Ruthenian demonstrations and strikes of students arose, and the Ruthenians were no longer content with the reversion of a few separate professorial chairs, and with parallel courses of lectures.
He remained content to leave such criminal havoc in the hands of the police.
Gabriel followed them out obediently, content to hang around them while bored.
Afterwards, she snuggled into his arms, content with the sound of his heartbeat and the feel of his arms around her.
He felt as if they were melting in to each other, and rather than anticipating what could come next, he was content to just stay in this moment.
You're saying he was content at his job?
Still, Alex seemed at home in her old house – and she would have been perfectly content to keep him there.
The officers of the Church during the first few centuries of its existence were content to officiate in the dress of civil life, though their garments were expected to be scrupulously clean and of decent quality.
But on the whole the false prophets deserve that name, not for their conscious impostures, but because they were content to handle religious formulas, which they had learned by rote, as if they were intuitive principles, the fruit of direct spiritual experience, to enforce a conventional morality, shutting their eyes to glaring national sins, after the manner of professional orthodoxy, and, in brief, to treat the religious status quo as if it could be accepted without question as fully embodying the unchanging principles of all religion.
If he could get potent drugs to cure disease he was content, and he worked very hard in an empirical way to make them.
The earlier writers of the century were content to follow French tradition.
The popes, then, or at least the more politic of them, have been content to lay down as the condition of reunion no more than the acceptance of the distinctive dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the supremacy and infallibility of the pope; the ritus of the Uniat Oriental Churches - liturgies and liturgical languages, ecclesiastical law and discipline, marriage of priests, beards and costume, the monastic system of St Basil - they have been content for the most part to leave untouched.
He was not content with knowing himself to be the leader of the age.
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As if aware of much of this, the country was well content with Disraeli's successes at Berlin, though sore on some points, he himself sharing the soreness.
Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually define one another as form and content, no conception of life is possible.