grateful
/ˈɡreɪtfʊl
/ /ˈɡreɪtf(ə)l/adjective
1Feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received: I’m grateful to you for all your help she gave him a grateful smile...
- 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.
Synonyms
thankful, filled with gratitude, appreciative;
indebted, obliged, obligated, under obligation, in your debt, beholden
1.1 archaic Received or experienced with gratitude; welcome: 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.
Derivatives
gratefulness
/ /ˈɡreɪtf(ə)lnəs / noun ...- This new plan has been welcomed by the entire community who extend their gratefulness to all those concerned in providing extra housing and activities for the elderly in their midst.
- I remember it with joy and gratefulness for all the times spent there.
- He was met with abuse as well as gratefulness for his visits.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from obsolete grate 'pleasing, thankful' (from Latin gratus) + -ful.