Grateful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Appreciative of benefits received; thankful.
  • adj. Expressing gratitude.
  • adj. Affording pleasure or comfort; agreeable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Showing appreciation, being thankful.
  • adj. Recognizing the importance of a source of pleasure.
  • adj. Pleasing, welcome.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. feeling or showing gratitude
  • adj. affording comfort or pleasure
  • Equivalent
    glad    appreciative    pleasant   
    Antonym
    ungrateful   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    fateful    hateful    ungrateful   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thankful    affectionate    glad    eager    respectful    sincere    dear    cordial