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grateful
[ greyt-fuhl ]
adjective
- warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful:
I am grateful to you for your help.
- expressing or actuated by gratitude:
a grateful letter.
a grateful breeze;
The peace and calm of the hill country is a grateful relief.
Synonyms: gratifying, pleasant
grateful
/ ˈɡreɪtfʊl /
adjective
- thankful for gifts, favours, etc; appreciative
- showing gratitude
a grateful letter
- favourable or pleasant
a grateful rest
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Derived Forms
- ˈgratefulness, noun
- ˈgratefully, adverb
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Other Words From
- grate·ful·ly adverb
- grate·ful·ness noun
- o·ver·grate·ful adjective
- o·ver·grate·ful·ly adverb
- qua·si-grate·ful adjective
- qua·si-grate·ful·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grateful1
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Example Sentences
As I am in most restaurants, I was grateful for any modifications that could be made.
They provide their own assistance and we are grateful to them for this.
She realized that turkeys have, as she puts it, “nothing to be grateful for” each year on the last Thursday of November.
After walking museum hallways my entire life, I am grateful for the opportunity to be on the other side of the wall.
They can only be grateful to be equipped and trained with full body hazmat suits complete with hooded face masks.
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.
At sight of this generous enemy, this faithful friend, how could he restrain the grateful impulse to fling himself into his arms!
It was a life full of freedom, and I shall never cease to be grateful for it, but I must go home soon and look after my affairs.
Are you sufficiently grateful to me for having quelled your matrimonial ardour of two months ago?
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