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grateful Definition

grate·ful (grātfəl)

adjective

  1. feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; appreciative
  2. causing gratitude; welcome; pleasing

Etymology: obs grate, pleasing (< L gratus: see grace) + -ful

grateful Related Forms
grate·fully adverb grate·ful·ness noun
grateful Synonyms

grateful

modif.

  1. Thankful

    appreciative, beholden, obliged; see thankful.

  2. Welcome

    agreeable, delectable, pleasing; see pleasant 2.

grateful Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • thank: Our very grateful thanks are extended to the Kings of Herts who gave their services free to support the school.
  • recollection: I could not approach the spot, without a grateful recollection of the event commemorated by this symbol.
  • Thank: Our Grateful Thanks to all the Companies who have so generously helped us set up this very useful and popular service.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: Let's remember things that we have felt grateful for, the times that stick in our memory.
  • remain: His parents, who both are blood donors, remain grateful for the vital part other donors played in their son's recovery.

Infinitive complement

  • hear: We would be most grateful to hear from anyone who may be able to help.
  • receive: We would be also grateful to receive these more general comments.

Modifying Another Word

  • eternally: Customer Rating: Review Summary: I am eternally grateful.
  • extremely: I am extremely grateful to you, Minister, for your strong words of support for them.
  • enormously: We are enormously grateful for any donation of whatever size every penny counts.
  • immensely: This kind of sparse upbeat racket still has the power to move me, for which I am immensely grateful.
  • deeply: The College is deeply grateful to members who have already responded with pledges of support through a legacy.

Preposition: for

  • donation: We are enormously grateful for any donation of whatever size every penny counts.
  • mercy: Be grateful for small mercies and the luxury of a western lifestyle.
  • assistance: I am also deeply grateful for the assistance that the members of the Security Council have given us.
  • feedback: We are extremely grateful for the helpful feedback we have received.
  • sponsorship: We are very grateful for sponsorship from Baillie Gifford and the Post Office for our two evening events on Thursday and Friday.
  • comment: Miss Weekes: I am grateful for those encouraging comments.

Preposition: if

  • anyone: Year of publication is not shown anwhere on the cover or inside and I'd be grateful if anyone has further information.
  • anybody: I would be grateful if anybody can help Slingshot to distribute these books, get more Associate Members or help with publicity.
grateful Quotes

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

—Tennyson

I am most grateful to the CLF [Commonwealth Literary Fund] for providing the funds to give these lectures in Australian literature, but unfortunately they have neglected to provide any literature. I will lecture therefore on D H Lawrence's 'Kangaroo'.

—Stewart,John Innes Mackintosh

Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, Avisitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

—Wordsworth,William

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber

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