v. 1
To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
You can't have any more. You'll have to content yourself with what you already have.
n. 1
Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
n. 2
That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
adj. 1
Satisfied, pleased, contented.

Related words

Word family: contentment contentness
Phrases: content clause content warning content word sponsored content content coupling content creator content note

Forms

Plural: contents → subject-matters, substances, messages, satisfactions…
Past participle: contented
e.g. contented → pleased, happied, gratified, satisfied…

Choose the right word

Content, Satisfy or Suffice?

Much less than is needed to satisfy may suffice a frugal or abstemious person; less than a sufficiency may content one of a patient and submissive spirit.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
content		steady
hearten		steady
elate		falling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters: easy², ease¹, fain¹
5 letters: happy², cheer¹, merry², elate²
6 letters: please¹
7 letters: message², subject², willing², pleased¹, satisfy³, delight², appease², gratify³, gladden², hearten²
8 letters: capacity⁴, quantity³, resigned², cheerful², exultant³
9 letters: satisfied³, substance², gratified³, enrapture³
10 letters: complacent³
11 letters: contentment³
12 letters: satisfaction⁴
13 letters: contentedness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (easy² = 2 syllables).