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🙏 Thankful 😊 Pleasant or welcome
grateful

grateful

713 1.0
Feeling thankful for something someone has done or given you
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡreɪt.fəl/
translation icon : agradecido
  • I am truly grateful for the help you provided during my time of need.
  • grateful to editors
  • grateful to reviewers
  • grateful to colleagues

And yet I'm very grateful to be here.

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Examples

  • And I was very grateful for all of your support.

  • I am deeply grateful to the staff of all three institutions for their unstinting support.

    Academic text (2015)

  • We are grateful to them and we are grateful for this space.

  • And above all else, we are grateful for this community.

  • I am so grateful to have you back.

    Babes (2024)

  • I am grateful for a hot cup of coffee.

    The Wrath of Becky (2023)

  • Allow yourself to be grateful for your breath.

  • And I am abundantly grateful for him and for that.

    Harvard University

  • Feinberg, who also took no pay, was grateful for the help.

    Academic text (2011)

  • She felt grateful for the opportunity to work with such talented colleagues.

Synonyms

thankful
vsgrateful
263 1.0

Feeling happy and relieved because someone helped you or something turned out well

is a general warm feeling about something received, not necessarily relief
appreciative
vsgrateful
56 3.2

Showing thanks for someone's help or a gift

is a warm feeling shown after someone does or gives you something

Antonyms

ungrateful
95 3.6

Not showing thanks when someone gives or does something for you

How Grateful

indebted
16 5.6
appreciative
56 3.2
grateful
713 1.0
thankful
263 1.0
pleased
936 1.0

Surface Forms

grateful positive
gratefully positive

Morphology

grateful = grat + ful

The suffix '-ful' ('full of') is productive and signals the adjective meaning, but the root 'grat' does not appear as a standalone modern English word meaning 'thanks' (learners more often know 'gratitude'), so the relation is not fully obvious.

Etymology

Grateful comes from the old Latin word gratus, which means 'pleasing' or 'thankful'. You can see the same root in gratitude and grace, so being grateful is feeling pleased and thankful for someone's help.