grateful
Meaning
- Appreciative; thankful.
- (obsolete) Pleasing, welcome.
Synonyms
be grateful
evoking gratitude
Frequency
Hyphenated as
grate‧ful
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɹeɪtfəl/
Etymology
From Latin gratus (“pleasing, agreeable”) + -ful, morphologically grate + -ful.
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