ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

831. Content -- N. content, contentment, contentedness; complacency, satisfaction, entire
satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind; serenity &c 826; cheerfulness &c 836; ray
of comfort; comfort &c (well-being) 827.
reconciliation; resignation &c (patience) 826.
[person who is contented] waiter on Providence.
V. be content &c adj.; rest satisfied, rest and be thankful; take the good the gods provide,
let well alone, let well enough alone, feel oneself at home, hug oneself, lay the flattering
unction to one's soul.
take up with, take in good part; accept, tolerate; consent &c 762; acquiesce, assent &c
488; be reconciled to, make one's peace with; get over it; take heart, take comfort; put up
with &c (bear) 826.
render content &c adj.; set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at ease, set one's mind at
ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win
over, propitiate, disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify &c 829.
be tolerated &c 826; go down, go down well, go down with; do; be OK.
Adj. content, contented; satisfied &c v.; at ease, at one's ease, at home; with the mind at
ease, sans souci [Fr.], sine cura [Lat.], easygoing, not particular; conciliatory;
unrepining † , of good comfort; resigned &c (patient) 826; cheerful &c 836.
unafflicted, unvexed † , unmolested, unplagued † ; serene &c 826; at rest, snug,
comfortable; in one's element.
satisfactory, tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable.
Adv. contently † , contentedly, to one's heart's content; a la bonne heure [Fr.]; all for the
best.
Int. amen &c (assent) 488; very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good; it
will do, that will do; it cannot be helped.
Phr. nothing comes amiss.
a heart with room for every joy [Bailey]; ich habe genossen das irdische Gluck ich
habe gelebt und geliebet [G.] [Schiller]; nor cast one longing lingering look behind
[Gray]; shut up in measureless content [Macbeth]; sweet are the thoughts that savor of
content [R.
Greene]; their wants but few their wishes all confined [Goldsmith]; might as well
relax and enjoy it.
832. Discontent -- N. discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction; dissent &c 489.
disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c 833; repining, taking on &c v.;
heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c (lamentation) 839; hypercriticism.
inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear &c 860.
[person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident,
dissenter, laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer † .
cave of Adullam † , indignation meeting, winter of our discontent [Henry VI]; with
what I most enjoy contented least [Shakespeare].
V. be discontented &c adj.; quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret &c 833;
wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a
wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder,
look blank, look glum.