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Webster 1913 Edition
Contentful
Con-tent′ful
,Adj.
Full of content.
[Obs.]
Barrow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contentful
CONTENTFUL
,Adj.
Definition 2025
contentful
contentful
English
Adjective
contentful (comparative more contentful, superlative most contentful)
- Having content.
- 2016 October 25, (Please provide the title of the work), volume 137, number 1, DOI: :
- 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 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.
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- (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.
- Isaac Barrow