GRATEFUL
\ɡɹˈe͡ɪtfə͡l], \ɡɹˈeɪtfəl], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_f_əl]\
Definitions of GRATEFUL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Thankful; pleasurable.
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Gratefulness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Causing pleasure: acceptable: delightful: thankful: having a due sense of benefits.
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GRATEFULNESS. GRATEFUL, THANKFUL. Grateful is preferred when we speak of the general character of a person’s mind; as, a person of a grateful disposition; or when a person has received favors from some individual. Thankful has reference rather to gratitude for particular act of kindness, and does not necessarily imply a favor conferred by a person; as, for instance, when we say we are thankful at being delivered from danger; I felt thankful at my escape, where it is nearly equivalent to relieved or glad; thankful has generally reference of some specific act; grateful is more general or characteristic of a habit. This is clearly seen in their opposites, ungrateful and thankless, or ingratitude and thanklessness.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Having a due sense of benefits; pleasing, acceptable, delightful, delicious.
By Thomas Sheridan