contented

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛntɪd/

Verb

contented

1. simple past and past participle of content

Adjective

contented (comparative more contented, superlative most contented)

1. Satisfied.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act III (now act IV, scene i), page 222:

     I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented.

   • 1795 James Boswell, as quoted in, 2010, Doug Stewart, the Boy Who Would be Shakespeare, excerpted as "To Be... or Not", Smithsonian, ISSN 0037-7333, volume 4, number 3, June 2010, page 72:

     "I shall now die contented," [Boswell] breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day."

Derived terms

• a contented mind is a perpetual feast

Translations

satisfied — see satisfied

Anagrams

• decontent

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Etymology

From Middle English contenten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔntɛnˈtiːd/

Adjective

contented

1. satisfied
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:

     Zoo wough aul returnth hime, contented an gaay,

     So we all returned home, contented and gay,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96