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Definition: Grateful |
GratefulAdjective1. Feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile". 2. Affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grateful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: GratefulSynonym: thankful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ungrateful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gratitude | Verb: be grateful; Adjective: thank; give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks; Noun: acknowledge, requite. |
Adjective: grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation. | |
Pain | Adjective: causing pleasure; Verb: laetificant; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory; (good). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grateful |
| English words defined with "grateful": appreciate, appreciatively ♦ consequently ♦ gratefully ♦ thankful, therefore ♦ Votive medal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grateful": Blenheim House ♦ DEChead ♦ GEOGRAPHER, Golden Verses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grateful": Ingrateful. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then I am grateful, Commander, that it is not up to you. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Tyler, I'm grateful to you; for everything that you've done for me. But this is too much (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) We are eternally grateful. (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) I suppose I should be grateful. All this time I thought my father didn't leave me anything (Halifax f.p: A Person of Interest; writing credit: Anne Brooksbank) That is also why I am most grateful to be found acceptable, sir. I volunteer (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) | |
Lyrics | That week off I'm grateful what was you tryin to say boo (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez) I'm grateful for each day you gave me (Because you loved me; performing artist: Celine Dion) And I'll be eternally grateful (Vision of Love; performing artist: Mariah Carey) And I'm so grateful 'cause I can see (SKY; performing artist: Sonique) Be grateful that it doesn't last all year (National Brotherhood Week; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor. (references; author: Mark Twain) Give a grateful man more than he asks. (references; author: Portuguese Proverb) 1968: The Grateful Dead. 1998: Dr. Kevorkian. (references; author: unknown) He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wishes he had. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Grateful Dead (1967) A Grateful Outcast (1914) Grateful and the Dead (1996) The Grateful Dead Movie (1977) | |
Song Titles | TOUCH OF GREY (performing artist: Grateful Dead ) | |
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 | John L. Levitow Jr., son of the late Medal of Honor recipient John L. Levitow, received the American flag on behalf of a grateful nation from Carol DiBattiste, undersecretary of the Air Force. Levitow died Nov. 8 at his home in Connecticut after a lengthy. |  | [Teaching a grateful mother how to care for her baby]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Laying cornerstone of the $800,000 Harding Memorial contributed by grateful nation. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | California shipyard workers. Eight hours of work in a Richmond, California shipyard find these two workers grateful for the calm and quiet of the ferry trip back to San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grateful Dead, Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band, and the Doors. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Grateful Dead. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Grateful" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "Old woman grateful for young woman's prayer." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Doris Lessing | A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful. |
Henry Clay | Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. |
Henry Ward Beecher | A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. |
| Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. | |
John Ruskin | Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. |
Portuguese Proverb | Give a grateful man more than he asks. |
Saul Bellow | Any artist should be grateful for a nanve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. |
The Koran | As for him who voluntarily performeth a good work, verily God is grateful and knowing. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | she was as grateful as possible, you may be sure |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Triumph of the commonplace, grateful to majorities |
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Economic History | Romania | Rural voters, who were grateful for the restoration of most agricultural land to farmers but fearful of change, strongly favored President Ion Iliescu and the FDSN, while the urban electorate favored the CDR (a coalition made up by several parties -- among which the the PNTCD and the PNL were the strongest -- and civic organizations) and quicker reform. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. Habeam, geographer of wide reknown, Native of Abu-Keber's ancient town, In passing thence along the river Zam To the adjacent village of Xelam, Bewildered by the multitude of roads, Got lost, lived long on migratory toads, Then from exposure miserably died, And grateful travelers bewailed their guide. Henry Haukhorn |
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Gennifer Flowers | There was a time I would have married him. I am very grateful at this point that I didn't. I have a wonderful husband that I feel like will be faithful to me. |
Geoffrey Hoon | I'm grateful for the condolences you express, and in return I have expressed mine to Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of the British government. |
Julie Andrews | I am very proud of him because Britain should support America. I mean, they did so much for us in World War II. And I was there. I mean, I was a child and I saw it all. And I'll never forget how grateful we must be to the Americans. |
Robert Novak | Twenty years is a long time for any television program, and I am grateful to CNN for permitting it to happen, particularly because this has been an old-fashioned kind of program. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Nothing can more promote the permanent welfare of the nation and nothing would be more grateful to our constituents. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Deeply impressed with the blessings which we enjoy, and of which we have such manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty Being, the great source from whence they proceed and to whom our most grateful acknowledgments are due. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Standing at this point of time, looking back to that generation which has gone by and forward to that which is advancing, we may at once indulge in grateful exultation and in cheering hope. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This disposition is founded as well on the most grateful and honorable recollections associated with our struggle for independence as upon a well grounded conviction that it is consonant with the true policy of both. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | Let us express renewed and strengthened devotion, in grateful reverence for the immortal beginning, and utter our confidence in the supreme fulfillment. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I am so grateful that I have been supported daily by the loyalty of Speaker McCormack and Majority Leader Albert. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | For that, we are so grateful and feel so blessed. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We are grateful for his service and honored that his mother, Lillie Tejeda, and his sister, Mary Alice, have come from Texas to be with us here tonight. |
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| "Grateful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.89% of the time. "Grateful" is used about 2,735 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.89% | 2,732 | 3,361 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,735 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "grateful": be grateful ♦ be grateful for ♦ being grateful for ♦ Grateful Med ♦ with grateful thanks. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "grateful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mirënjohës (beholden), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممنون (beholden, obliged), مقر بالجميل, مستحب, معبر عن شكر (thankful), شاكر (thankful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | успокоителен (calmative, comfortable, comforting, composing, emollient, lenitive, palliative, placatory, reposeful, restful, sedative), благодарствен, благодарен (indebted, thankful), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), признателен (beholden, thankful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 感謝 (gratitude, thankful, thanks), 感恩 (Thanksgiving). (various references) | |
Czech | vdìèný (rewarding, thankful), vdìèen. (various references) | |
Danish | taknemlig for (grateful for). (various references) | |
Dutch | dankbaar voor (grateful for). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dankema pro (grateful for), danka pro (grateful for). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiitollinen (thankful). (various references) | |
French | reconnaissant, exprimé son remerciements. (various references) | |
German | erkenntlich (appreciative, thankful), dankbar (appreciative, beholden, gracefully, gratefully, rewarding, thankful, thankfullly, thankfully, worthwhile). (various references) | |
Greek | ευγνώμων (beholden, grateful for, thankful, thankful for), ευγνώμονασ (thankful). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מודה (confessing, fashion, thanking), מכיר טובה, אסיר תודה (beholden, indebted, obliged, thankful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hálás (beholden, indebted, look full of gratitude, thankful). (various references) | |
Icelandic | þakklátur fyrir (grateful for). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berterima-kasih (gratitude). (various references) | |
Irish | buíoch. (various references) | |
Italian | riconoscente (acknowledging, appreciative, appreciatory, thankful), grato (beholden, glad, indebted, thankful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 有難い (appreciated, evoking gratitude, thankful, welcome), 有り難い (appreciated, evoking gratitude, thankful, welcome), 忝い (indebted). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かたじけない (indebted), ありがたい (appreciated, evoking gratitude, thankful, welcome). (various references) | |
Korean | 고맙게 여기는. (various references) | |
Manx | taitnyssagh (acceptable, amiable, amusing, appealing, charmed, congenial, delectable, delightful, enchanting, endearing, enjoyable, entertaining, likeable, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, scrumptious), kianglt booise (beholden). (various references) | |
Norwegian | takknemlig (thankful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atefulgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grato (grate, hoped-for, thankful, welcome), reconhecido (accepted, acknowledged, arrant, beholden, grantee, thankful), agradecido (thankful), agradvel (gracious, grate, halcyon, hoped-for). (various references) | |
Romanian | recunoscãtor (appreciative, appreciatory, indebted, obliged, thankful), reconfortant (bracing, comfortable, gratefully, restorative, stimulating, strengthening, tonic), plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, dulcet, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), odihnitor (appeasing, composing, mild, recreating, relaxing, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, soothing). (various references) | |
Russian | благодарный (grateful to, thankful). (various references) | |
Scottish | taingeil. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zahvalan (appreciative, thankful, worthy). (various references) | |
Spanish | agradecido (appreciative, appreciatory, beholden, indebted, thankful). (various references) | |
Swedish | tacksam (beholden, greatful, obilged, thankful). (various references) | |
Turkish | verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, high speed, loamy, pregnant, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, yielding), teşekkür borçlu (appreciative, appreciatory, indebted, thankful), tatminkâr (comfortable, famous, favorable, favourable, gratifying, satisfactory), minnettar (appreciative, appreciatory, beholden, indebted, obliged, thankful), memnun (chuffed, content, delighted, glad, gladsome, gratified, happy, pleased, rejoiced at, satisfied), makbul (acceptable, accepted, agreeable, far out, o.k., ok, okay, palatable), müteşekkir (indebted, thankful). (various references) | |
Turkmen | minnetdar (appreciative). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вдячний (appreciative, appreciatory, beholden, obliged, thankful), благодатний (favored, favoured), приємний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khoan khoái, biết ơn dễ chịu. (various references) | |
Welsh | diolchgar (appreciative, thankful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gratae, grati, gratis, gratissima, gratissimi, gratissimus, gratum, gratus, memor, memores, memoria. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grateful": gratefuller, gratefullest, gratefully, gratefulness, gratefulnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "grateful": ungrateful. (additional references) | |
Words containing "grateful": ungratefully, ungratefulness, ungratefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Grateful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: garefowl, grapeful, gratefull, gratefuly, gratful, gratrful, greateful, greatful, gridful, rageful, Rattakul. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grateful" (pronounced grā"tful) |
| 7 | g r ā" t f u l | ungrateful. |
| 5 | -ā" t f u l | fateful, hateful. |
| 4 | -t f u l | artful, boastful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doubtful, eventful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, hurtful, spiteful, tactful, tasteful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, restful, rightful, thoughtful, uneventful, wasteful, wistful, zestful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: refutal, tearful, tegular. | |
-2 letters: artful, earful, falter, ferula, fluter, frugal, rugate, tergal. | |
-3 letters: after, aglet, alert, alter, argle, argue, artel, auger, farle, fault, feral, fetal, feuar, flare, flute, fugal, fugle, gault, glare, gluer, graft, grate, great, gruel, gular, lager, large, later, luger, lutea, ratel, regal, retag, rugae, rugal, taler, targe, tegua, terga, ultra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fulgurate. | |
+2 letters: fulgurated, fulgurates, gratefully, ungrateful. | |
+3 letters: centrifugal, frugalities, gratefuller, unfaltering. | |
+4 letters: centrifugals, figuratively, gracefullest, gratefullest, gratefulness, unflattering, ungratefully. | |
+5 letters: centrifugally, reformulating, unfalteringly, unforgettable, unforgettably. | |
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