Definition of grateful in English:
grateful
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adjective
1Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful.
‘I'm very grateful to you for all your help’- ‘I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that.’
- ‘To be offered a treat such as freshly baked shortbread is sure to raise a grateful smile.’
- ‘She is also very appreciative of what you do for her and is grateful for my interest.’
- ‘We are grateful for the support we have received from family, friends and the local community.’
- ‘Equally I am grateful for the support he has received from many of your readers.’
- ‘If anyone can tell me how to change the font for headings, I would be grateful.’
- ‘I guess we all knew this was coming, and I am grateful that it seems to be so well managed and controlled.’
- ‘There are too many of you to email back personally, but I am very, very grateful.’
- ‘From time to time I put out a plea for help in this column and was so grateful for the responses.’
- ‘He was not disappointed and said he was grateful for the support of his family and staff.’
- ‘The committee would be grateful for your help in hosting a table or being a guest on the night.’
- ‘Justice has been done and we are all so grateful to the police officers down there in Devon who have worked so hard.’
- ‘When they reached their destination they gave their chocolate eggs to grateful parents.’
- ‘Leaving the island at the end of the week, I was grateful for the chance to visit such a beautiful place.’
- ‘So if anyone has got any tips as to how I can calm my nerves before or during the flight I'd be very grateful.’
- ‘If you have one hour free a week we would be grateful for your help with Community Games.’
- ‘He is deeply grateful to all who sent him best wishes and were so kind and generous.’
- ‘The committee are very grateful to all who helped in the field and with the teas and in the shop.’
- ‘The tokens may be dropped in to the school and we would be grateful of your support.’
- ‘Every year a large number of people come out and help and we are grateful for your support.’
thankful, filled with gratitude, appreciativeView synonyms- 1.1 archaic Received or experienced with gratitude; welcome.‘enjoying the grateful shade’
- ‘And who is there, therefore, to whom, if prepared for heaven, the grave would not be a place of calm and grateful rest?’
- ‘After a much needed and grateful rest the Saints resumed their journey in the spring of 1854, arriving in Utah in October of that year.’
- ‘A short walk of perhaps a hundred yards beneath the grateful shade of wide-spreading mulberry trees covered with fruit and bearing in their branches numberless gaudy-hued, twittering songsters, brought one to the hotel.’
- ‘Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.’
- ‘The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Mid 16th century from obsolete grate ‘pleasing, thankful’ (from Latin gratus) + -ful.
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