English adjective: content | |||
1. | content satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | ||
Samples | A contented smile. | ||
Synonyms | contented | ||
Similar | complacent, satisfied, self-complacent, self-satisfied, self-satisfied, smug | ||
See also | happy, pleased | ||
Antonyms | discontent, discontented | ||
English noun: content | |||
1. | content (group) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | ||
Samples | He emptied the contents of his pockets. The two groups were similar in content. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
2. | content (communication) what a communication that is about something is about | ||
Synonyms | message, subject matter, substance | ||
Broader (hypernym) | communication | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | acknowledgement, acknowledgment, approval, aside, body, bunk, commendation, commitment, corker, counsel, counseling, counselling, dedication, digression, direction, direction, disapproval, discourtesy, disrespect, divagation, drivel, entry, excursus, garbage, guidance, hokum, humor, humour, import, info, information, insertion, instruction, interpolation, latent content, meaning, meaninglessness, memorial, narration, narrative, nonsense, nonsensicality, offer, offering, opinion, packaging, parenthesis, petition, postulation, promotion, promotional material, proposal, publicity, refusal, reminder, request, respects, sensationalism, shocker, significance, signification, statement, statement, story, subject, submission, tale, theme, topic, view, wit, witticism, wittiness | ||
3. | content the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | proportion | ||
4. | content (quantity) the amount that can be contained | ||
Samples | The gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons. | ||
Synonyms | capacity | ||
Broader (hypernym) | volume | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | vital capacity | ||
5. | content (cognition) the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | ||
Synonyms | cognitive content, mental object | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cognition, knowledge, noesis | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | acculturation, belief, center, centre, core, culture, disbelief, domain, education, end, essence, experience, food, food for thought, gist, goal, heart, heart and soul, heresy, idea, ignorance, intellectual nourishment, internal representation, inwardness, issue, issue, kernel, knowledge base, knowledge domain, lore, marrow, matter, meat, mental representation, metaknowledge, nitty-gritty, noumenon, nub, object, pith, representation, subject, substance, sum, thing-in-itself, thought, topic, tradition, traditional knowledge, unbelief, universe, universe of discourse, unorthodoxy, wisdom | ||
6. | content (state) the state of being contented with your situation in life | ||
Samples | He relaxed in sleepy contentedness. They could read to their heart's content. | ||
Synonyms | contentedness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | acceptance | ||
7. | content (artifact) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | ||
Samples | A moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject. | ||
Synonyms | depicted object, subject | ||
Broader (hypernym) | thing | ||
Part meronym | scene, view | ||
English verb: content | |||
1. | content (consumption) satisfy in a limited way | ||
Samples | He contented himself with one glass of beer per day. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | circumscribe, confine, limit | ||
2. | content (emotion) make content | ||
Samples | I am contented. | ||
Examples | The good news will content her | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | gratify, satisfy | ||
Antonyms | discontent | ||