Grateful
['greɪtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['ɡretfl]
Definition
(adj.) feeling or showing gratitude; 'a grateful heart'; 'grateful for the tree's shade'; 'a thankful smile' .
(adj.) affording comfort or pleasure; 'the grateful warmth of the fire' .
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Definition
(a.) 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; as, a grateful heart.
(a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Thankful, obliged, indebted, beholden, under obligation.[2]. Agreeable, pleasing, pleasant, gratifying, acceptable, delightful, welcome, charming.[3]. Delicious, palatable, savory, nice, luscious, cordial, refreshing, invigorating.
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Definition
adj. causing pleasure: acceptable: delightful: thankful: having a due sense of benefits.—adv. Grate′fully.—ns. Grate′fulness; Gratificā′tion a pleasing or indulging: that which gratifies: delight; Grat′ifier.—v.t. Grat′ify to do what is agreeable to: to please: to soothe; to indulge:—pa.p. grat′ified.—p.adj. Grat′ifying.
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Examples
- Especially, said Mr. Pumblechook, be grateful, boy, to them which brought you up by hand. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Besides, said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, think what you've got to be grateful for. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am very grateful to you for all you have done for me, but I can't stay here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As I could not understand or speak a word of French, I went to see our minister, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, and got him to send a deputy to answer for me, which he did, with my grateful thanks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His visit made no impression on me, except that I was grateful for his kindness in leaving me the money I wanted. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I didn't know you had any reason for being grateful to me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Could you manage that, think you, Lucy, and make me ever grateful? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To Leinster's joy and our astonishment, Lord Worcester said he must really decline my very polite offer, grateful as he felt for it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Why am I ever so to you, when I should think of nothing but how to be grateful, and to make you happy! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- These were instances of friendship for which any man might reasonably feel most grateful. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But I am grateful to you for wishing to do the best for me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- By her grateful attention to me and mine, she has long since well repaid any little kindness I ever had it in my power to offer her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Being hungry, I ate and was grateful. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She blushed slightly, and cast a grateful look on Mr. Jingle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Instead of having to flatter, she would be flattered; instead of being grateful, she would receive thanks. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I rose to take leave of him; and attempted to express the grateful sense of his kindness which I really felt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I love heart in women, said Ebrington, and am grateful when feeling of any kind is evinced towards me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If I give my consent to your going, Betty--which Mr Rokesmith thinks I ought to do--' Betty thanked him with a grateful curtsey. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I succeeded to his connection, and had every reason to feel grateful for the prospect that awaited me at my starting in life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I assure you, sir, I am very grateful, said Fred, who had had time to recover his cheerful air. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And this dear parrain took her hand and lifted it to his grateful lips. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Say, with my grateful regard, that you left me so, or I would have come. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I am grateful to you for remembering my feelings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I'll testify that you tried to do it, said Laurie with a grateful look. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I am very grateful to Mr. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That done, with many added sentences of grateful friendship and warm attachment, all was done. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I was more grateful to Nugent than I can describe, for this most warm, uncalled-for, and spontaneous praise of my mother. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Her other servants would probably be grateful for good characters, but I wanted none. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was very kind to her and grateful for her love and watchfulness over the boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In days of happiness I have often repeated to myself, with a grateful heart and exulting spirit, all that Raymond sacrificed for me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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