contentful

English

Etymology 1

From content (subject matter) + -ful.

Pronunciation

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 contentfulthat it is never mere Case marking, strictly speakingbut 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.
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