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# contentedly

«contentedly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a happy, calm way, feeling pleased with what you have** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (no comparative in common use)

### meaning for a pupil

In a happy, calm way, feeling pleased with what you have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contentedly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, people who live simply and happily: they lived contentedly in their little house.

### examples

- The cat purred contentedly by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contentedly/#x1)
- We ate our picnic contentedly on the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contentedly/#x2)
- The baby slept contentedly all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contentedly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contentedly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contentedly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.