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contentedly

Syllables: con·tent·ed·ly/kənˈtɛn.tɪd.liː/US/kənˈtɛn.tɪd.li/

contentedly adverb: in a contented manner.

Adverb

contentedly (comparative more contentedly, superlative most contentedly)

  1. In a contented manner.
    • 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.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...
    • “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...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85

contentedly meaning in Tamil and Bengali

contentedly in Tamil

மனநிறைவான, தணிவான

contentedly in Bengali

সন্তোষজনক, তৃপ্তির সাথে

Forms of contentedly

comparativemore contentedly
superlativemost contentedly

Origin of contentedly

From contented + -ly.

Questions about contentedly

What does contentedly mean?
Contentedly means in a contented manner.
What is contentedly in Tamil?
Contentedly in Tamil is மனநிறைவான, தணிவான. See Contentedly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is contentedly?
Contentedly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce contentedly?
Contentedly is pronounced /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.liː/ (UK).

Words near contentedly in the dictionary

  1. contentable
  2. contentation
  3. contentations
  4. contente
  5. contented
  6. contentedly
  7. contentedness
  8. contenter
  9. contentest
  10. contenteth
  11. contentful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contentedly (page history and authors); contentedly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); contentedly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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