contentedly
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: kən-tĕn′tĭd-lē
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.liː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.li/
- (Australia) IPA(key): /kənˈten.tɪd.liː/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kənˈten.təd.liː/
- (India) IPA(key): /konˈʈɛn.ʈɪɖ.liː/
- Rhymes: -ɛntɪdliː
- Hyphenation: con‧tent‧ed‧ly
Adverb
[edit]contentedly (comparative more contentedly, superlative most contentedly)
- In a contented manner.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202, column 1:
- Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
- “Take my word for it, you’ll settle down with us all right. Give us a trial anyway. . . . . Come in, Mr. Hopkins. . . . This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
References
[edit]- “contentedly”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, retrieved 16 September 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- “contentedly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Translations
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