Congrats on the feature Dimby! And I am telling you, if you want "be Angry" I am still more than happy(no pun intended) to give it to you, as under your account, it may get featured, too!
Yes, content with the stress on the second syllable means happy. Effervescent is perhaps the biggest stretch here, meaning bubbly and energetic, but I think it works. 😄
I indeed had a little doubt with content before going for it, I believe it is more "ok with how things are" So comparable to decent versus great.
(You could ofcourse substitute ok with happy in the sentence above "happy with how things are" but imo that is a different happy than actual happy, which is a peak while content is a horizontal line (though above 0, if you were to picture it in a graph)
All that being said it is a positive word, so in my opinion does not needs to go, just showing it is on a slightly different level. It is being pleased, which is a good thing.
Thanks! Yes, I was surprised when I saw its definition on a word of the day email, and luckily remembered it to make it one of the trickier words on the list! 😄😄
same, in Dutch it means the opposite, though apparently in Belgium it can still have both the negative as well as the positive sense (I might have interpreted it incorrectly though and perhaps only the negative sense is used in Belgium)
Edit and I see in Quebec French it can also mean excited, just as it does in Dutch. Interesting!
In French, the Mona Lisa, the woman with perhaps the most famous smile in history and easily one of the most disappointing paintings to see in person, is known as la Joconde.
I was down to needing 3 after getting the ones I was certain of, and went to enervated actually expecting it to be correct. The Dutch cognate means excited, so was surprised to see it was incorrect. (I guess getting nervous and therefor weaker, and getting excited and therefor more energetic are closely connected)
Of the three left exultant jocund and buoyant, I would not have guessed buoyant. But I guess it is positive to stay afloat haha.
also effervescent lol
(You could ofcourse substitute ok with happy in the sentence above "happy with how things are" but imo that is a different happy than actual happy, which is a peak while content is a horizontal line (though above 0, if you were to picture it in a graph)
All that being said it is a positive word, so in my opinion does not needs to go, just showing it is on a slightly different level. It is being pleased, which is a good thing.
Well done for this quiz, keep going !
Edit and I see in Quebec French it can also mean excited, just as it does in Dutch. Interesting!
RIP 💀
"Sudden death" 🌚
(I'm assuming you're joking)
Of the three left exultant jocund and buoyant, I would not have guessed buoyant. But I guess it is positive to stay afloat haha.