grateful
- Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
- (archaic) Of a thing or (obsolete) person: pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable, pleasant, welcome.
Opposite of
ingrateful, ungrateful
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɹeɪtfəl/
Etymology
From grate (“(obsolete) serving to gratify, agreeable, pleasing; grateful, thankful”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of tending to have or thoroughly having a quality). Grate is a learned borrowing from Latin grātus (“agreeable, pleasing; beloved, dear; grateful, thankful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to express approval, praise; to elevate”).
Related words
be grateful
evoking gratitude
reconnaissant
dankbar
agradecido
grato
agradecido
dankbaar wdzięczny
agraït
minnettar
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