contentful

contentful

English

Etymology 1

From content (“subject matter”) +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛnt.fəɫ/
• (US) enPR: kŏn'tĕnt-fəl, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛnt.fəɫ/

Adjective

contentful (comparative more contentful, superlative most contentful)

1. Having content.
   • 2019 October 25, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 137, number 1, DOI:10.1007/s11098-007-9166-0:

     Indeed, it seems to me that the special character of non-conceptually contentful perceptual states entails that all perceptual states contain non-conceptual content in this essentially distinct sense […] .

   • 1988, Richard K. Larson, On the Double Object Construction

     In answer to this question I want to propose that to is in fact always contentful—that it is never mere Case marking, strictly speaking—but that in certain contexts (namely, in V's headed by Dative-Shifting verbs) its grammatical contribution effectively "reduces" to Case marking and therefore can be suppressed under Passive.

Etymology 2

From content (“contentment”) +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛnt.fəɫ/

Adjective

contentful (comparative more contentful, superlative most contentful)

1. (obsolete) Full of contentment.
   • Isaac Barrow

     How contentful the whole life is of him, that neither deviseth mischief against others, nor suspects any to be contrived against himself.

Derived terms

• contentfully
• contentfulness

See also

• contentsome