contentedly

From contented +‎ -ly.

• enPR: kən-tĕn′tĭd-lē
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.liː/

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• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.li/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kənˈten.tɪd.liː/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kənˈten.təd.liː/
• (India) IPA^(key): /konˈʈɛn.ʈɪɖ.liː/
• Rhymes: -ɛntɪdliː
• Hyphenation: con‧tent‧ed‧ly

contentedly (comparative more contentedly, superlative most contentedly)

1. In a contented manner.
   • 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, column 1:

     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.

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

     “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 declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

   • 2001, Conrad P. Pritscher, Quantum Learning: Beyond Duality‎^[1], Leiden: Rodopi, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, lines 24–25:

     Please tell me something useful by which I may live my life more fully, or more contentedly, or more creatively.

• “contentedly” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025, retrieved 16 September 2025.

• “contentedly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.