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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛnt.fəɫ/
  • (米国用法) enPR: kŏn'tĕnt-fəl, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛnt.fəɫ/

形容詞

contentful (comparative more contentful, superlative most contentful)

1. Having content.
   • 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.

   • 2007 October 25, Robert Hanna, “Kantian non-conceptualism”, in Philosophical Studies, 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 […] .

   • 2011, Steven Hales, What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog, Open Court, →ISBN, page 214:

     Can one have contentful but non-conceptual thought? My guess is that we can and I take it that my guess is buttressed by our ordinary practice of talking about the behaviour of animals and pre-linguistic children.

語源 2

From content (“contentment”) +‎ -ful.

発音

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛnt.fəɫ/

形容詞

contentful (comparative more contentful, superlative most contentful)

1. (obsolete) Full of contentment.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of a Peaceable Temper (sermon):

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

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 63:

     With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.

派生語

• contentfully
• contentfulness

参考

• contentsome