content with meaning

• content yourself with sth to decide to accept something or do something, even though it is not what you really wanted:
  ▪ Meredith could not afford a new dress, and had to content herself with wearing the one she had bought last year.
  ▪ Francis, who had hoped to be made Chancellor, had to content himself with the post of Minister for Agriculture.
  ▪ Meredith was too tired to argue so she contented herself with an angry glare.
  ■ SIMILAR TO: make do with

• Do n't rest content with past achievements.
• Be not content with the commonplace in character.
• Please do not be content with the stock answers.
• I am quite content with philosophic contemplation.
• He is not fatuously content with existing conditions.
• You ought to be content with simple cotton dress.
• Be content with what you are and what you have.
• If we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
• She seemed to content with her life as a rich man 's plaything.
• We would be quite content with beijing's posture of noninvolvement.

• "content with" meaning in Chinese: 对…感到满意
• "content with" meaning in Japanese: 《be ～》～に満足｛まんぞく｝している、甘んじているI would be content with a lower...