Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to content
Participle: contented
Gerund: contenting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | content |
| you | content |
| he;she;it | contents |
| we | content |
| you | content |
| they | content |
Perfect
| I | have contented |
| you | have contented |
| he;she;it | has contented |
| we | have contented |
| you | have contented |
| they | have contented |
Past
| I | contented |
| you | contented |
| he;she;it | contented |
| we | contented |
| you | contented |
| they | contented |
Pluperfect
| I | had contented |
| you | had contented |
| he;she;it | had contented |
| we | had contented |
| you | had contented |
| they | had contented |
Future
| I | will content |
| you | will content |
| he;she;it | will content |
| we | will content |
| you | will content |
| they | will content |
Future Perfect
| I | will have contented |
| you | will have contented |
| he;she;it | will have contented |
| we | will have contented |
| you | will have contented |
| they | will have contented |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | content |
| you | content |
| he;she;it | content |
| we | content |
| you | content |
| they | content |
Perfect
| I | have contented |
| you | have contented |
| he;she;it | have contented |
| we | have contented |
| you | have contented |
| they | have contented |
Imperfect
| I | contented |
| you | contented |
| he;she;it | contented |
| we | contented |
| you | contented |
| they | contented |
Pluperfect
| I | had contented |
| you | had contented |
| he;she;it | had contented |
| we | had contented |
| you | had contented |
| they | had contented |
Conditional
Present
| I | would content |
| you | would content |
| he;she;it | would content |
| we | would content |
| you | would content |
| they | would content |
Perfect
| I | would have contented |
| you | would have contented |
| he;she;it | would have contented |
| we | would have contented |
| you | would have contented |
| they | would have contented |
Imperative
| you | content |
| we | Let's content |
| you | content |
Verbs conjugated like 'content'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'content'
consent,
contend,
contest,
context,
convent,
coinvent,
comment,
conceit,
concert,
confect,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”). See: Middle English '
contenten'.
Sample Sentences
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‘When left alone, she occupies and apparently amuses herself, and seems quite contented; and so strong seems to be the natural tendency of thought to put on the garb of language, that she often soliloquizes in the finger language, slow and tedious as it is. But it is only when [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] that await them on the other side, the impulse to play traitor, which such a place suggests to dishonest minds, is not weakened. But it very rarely happens that the men who do desert, are happy or contented afterwards; and many instances have been known in which they have confessed their grievous disappointment, and their earnest desire to return to their old service if they could but be assured of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] first, as showing how desperately timid of the public opinion slave-owners are, in their delicate descriptions of fugitive slaves in widely circulated newspapers; secondly, as showing how perfectly contented the slaves are, and how very seldom they run away; thirdly, as exhibiting their entire freedom from scar, or blemish, or any mark of cruel infliction, as their pictures are drawn, not by lying [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘So much of my voice has lately been heard in the land, that I might have been contented with troubling you no further from my present standing-point, were it not a duty with which I henceforth charge myself, not only here but on every suitable occasion, whatsoever and wheresoever, to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)