Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Appreciative of benefits received; thankful.
- adjective Expressing gratitude.
- adjective Affording pleasure or comfort; agreeable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pleasing to the mind or the senses; agreeable; gratifying; affording pleasure.
- Betokening or expressing gratitude; denoting thankfulness.
- Feeling kindly or tenderly on account of a favor or favors bestowed; disposed to acknowledge and repay benefits.
- Synonyms Grateful, Thankful, beholden. Grateful is preferred when we speak of the general character of a person's mind: as, a man of a grateful disposition; an ungrateful wretch. Grateful often expresses the feeling, and the readiness to manifest the feeling by acts, even a long time after the rendering of the favor; thankful refers rather to the immediate acknowledgment of the favor by words. The same distinction is found in the negative forms, ungrateful, unthankful, thankless. Thankful is often loosely used for relieved or glad, where the thanks, if rendered, would be given to a merciful or helping Providence: as, I am thankful for my escape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits.
- adjective Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Showing
appreciation , beingthankful . - adjective Recognizing the importance of a source of
pleasure . - adjective
Pleasing ,welcome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling or showing gratitude
- adjective affording comfort or pleasure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But I may permit myself, perhaps, to say I am _most_ grateful, _most grateful_, dearest friend, for this admission to participate, in my degree, in these feelings.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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The way she used those air quotation marks around the word grateful confused me.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009
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The way she used those air quotation marks around the word grateful confused me.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009
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And as I said in the script, when Wayne, and Mark and Chris, our new sales leaders go in, the advertisers are actually very, if you will, I don't want to say the word grateful, but we're talking about Yahoo! much differently than the fact that it's big because guess what, our competition is big too.
unknown title 2011
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I got to know the author ten years ago while he was the Bosnian ambassador to the EU and NATO, and he did one thing for me for which I will forever remain grateful: he introduced me to sushi.
Linkspam for 4-2-2010 nwhyte 2010
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You could almost hear the telepathic message beaming forth from Coca-Cola headquarters whenever a freed miner fell to his knees in grateful prayer: OK, now pleasepleaseplease, just ASK FOR A COKE!!!
Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval: The Folk Hero Franchise: Marketing the Chilean Miner Brand Linda Kaplan Thaler 2010
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I remain grateful for the Jesuit professors I had, everyone of them.
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Had I known that, I would have been much too timid to say anything to him, and I remain grateful for the ignorance that made our enjoyable conversation possible.
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And I have been enjoying the nudging I've been getting (from friends, from God, from readings) that being grateful is a perfectly fine response.
On making your world beartalon 2009
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But I like the daffodil farm and remain grateful for the paid work I did there.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Vantreight Farms’ Non-Daffodil Developments 2008
frindley commented on the word grateful
in the sense of idiomatic
March 12, 2008