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Definition of Grateful

1. Adjective. Feeling or showing gratitude. "A thankful smile"

2. Adjective. Affording comfort or pleasure. "The grateful warmth of the fire"

Definition of Grateful

1. 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.

Definition of Grateful

1. Adjective. Showing appreciation, being thankful. ¹

2. Adjective. Recognizing the importance of a source of pleasure. ¹

3. Adjective. Pleasing, welcome. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grateful

1. deeply thankful [adj -FULLER, -FULLEST]

Medical Definition of Grateful

1. 1. 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 grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays." (Milton) 2. Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep. "Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine, And grateful clusters swell." (Pope) Synonym: Thankful, pleasing, acceptable, gratifying, agreeable, welcome, delightful, delicious. Grate"fully Grate"fulness. Origin: Grate, . + full; cf. F. Gre thanks, good will, fr. L. Gratum, neut. Of gratus agreeable, grateful. See Grate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grateful

graste grat grate grated grated cheese grateful (current term) grateful med gratefull gratefuller gratefullest

gratefully gratefulness gratefulnesses grateless grater graters grates graticulate graticulated graticulating

Literary usage of Grateful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"She will be most glad and grateful." But 'Straightway the frown came again, the long hand, back uppermost, was stretched out in quite a different sense to ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"150 But fince for common good I yield the fair, My private lofs let grateful Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain, That he alone has ..."

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