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- Whats the difference between content and contented?
First, it's content with and contented with; never of Second, there is really no difference between one's unspecified emotional state (content) and a state reached as a result of some phenomenon acting on one (contented)
- adjectives - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The great Groucho Marx once gave a good funny example of the difference between satisfied and contented: Two man were arguing about the question: what's the difference between satisfied and contented?
- Is there a specific name for that singular exhalation laugh that . . .
I'm betting that most people know exactly what I am talking about It happens when you're scrolling through some social media and you see something that is only a little funny It may catch you by
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Given this sentence: I find (content contentment) when sitting on a crowded subway train or in the sentence fragment: my place of (content contentment) In the dictionary, I see that content
- The usage of sigh - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
the dictionary in its examples reads: sigh Verb (used without object) to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief Now relief is a synonym of contentment relief Synonyms for relief alleviation assistance comfort happiness help maintenance reprieve respite satisfaction support abatement amelioration appeasement assuagement balm break breather cheer consolation
- What are the adverb and adjective for content?
If you are, then they would be contented and contentedly I am quite sure you are asking about the noun content, like the nutritional content of milk, the news content of newspaper, the story content of a book, etc The adjective would be content-related For example, He asked me contextual questions about the book
- Contentious vs Contentment - same root but different meaning
I am having trouble in figuring it out why there is a difference between their meaning as i think that the root "content" is shared by both the words content + ious ; content + ment where contentment
- Can the word sigh be positive? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
A sigh can be positive, but without verbal or gestural qualification to the contrary, a sigh ('a sudden, prolonged, deep and more or less audible respiration, following on a deep-drawn breath' - OED) usually indicates or expresses dejection, weariness, longing, pain, or relief (OED) I often sigh with contentment after finishing something delicious to eat or drink I also sigh happily when, at
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