Thankful
['θæŋkfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['θæŋkfl]
Definition
(a.) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
(a.) Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Grateful (with a desire to give thanks), obliged, beholden, indebted, under obligation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grateful, Indebted, beholden, obliged
ANT:Ungrateful, thankless, unthankful
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Examples
- She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How thankful should I be! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Are you thankful for not being young? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, let us eat our fill of the vain thing and be thankful therefor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's a thing to be thankful for, indeed, that Miss Dorrit is not here to know it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To some men it never comes; let them rest and be thankful! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am very thankful. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was also Mr. Isaacs, who did a great deal of photographic work, and to whom we must be thankful for the pictures of Menlo Park in connection with Edison's work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How much have I to be thankful for in living with Mr. Wickfield! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You ought to be thankful, said Shirley, and not mock me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I want to feel a hundred times more thankful than I do. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- How thankful was I to be able to answer with truth--No. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No, my fairy: but I am only too thankful to hear and feel you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Jo closes his eyes, muttering, I'm wery thankful. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was very happy, very thankful, very hopeful; but I cried very much. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was thankful to hear Mr. Thornton announced. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet I must cling to it; perhaps it will kill me soon, and thus perform a thankful office. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Gudrun was VERY thankful that none of her party asked him what was the matter with the hand. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She could not but be thankful. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- With the exception of my limbs and my breath, howsoever, I am as hearty as a man can be, I'm thankful to say. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You know how good my guardian is and what a happy life we lead, and I have everything to be thankful for and nothing in the world to desire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Oh, I am so thankful they are gone! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I am very thankful, I am very cheerful, but I cannot quite help their coming to my eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am thankful I stayed! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- How cool that woman is, said one; what airs of independence she assumes, where she ought to sit still and be thankful if anybody speaks to her! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The elder Rawdon was thankful for the fondness of mother and daughter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yet she desired it, as one in a desert would be thankful for brackish water. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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