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单词 grateful
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Definition of grateful in English:

grateful

adjective ˈɡreɪtf(ə)lˈɡreɪtfʊlˈɡreɪtfəl
  • 1Feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received.

    I'm grateful to you for all your help
    she gave him a grateful smile
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If you have one hour free a week we would be grateful for your help with Community Games.
    • He was not disappointed and said he was grateful for the support of his family and staff.
    • Every year a large number of people come out and help and we are grateful for your support.
    • Leaving the island at the end of the week, I was grateful for the chance to visit such a beautiful place.
    • Justice has been done and we are all so grateful to the police officers down there in Devon who have worked so hard.
    • There are too many of you to email back personally, but I am very, very grateful.
    • He is deeply grateful to all who sent him best wishes and were so kind and generous.
    • The tokens may be dropped in to the school and we would be grateful of your support.
    • The committee are very grateful to all who helped in the field and with the teas and in the shop.
    • Equally I am grateful for the support he has received from many of your readers.
    • If anyone can tell me how to change the font for headings, I would be grateful.
    • When they reached their destination they gave their chocolate eggs to grateful parents.
    • I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that.
    • We are grateful for the support we have received from family, friends and the local community.
    • The committee would be grateful for your help in hosting a table or being a guest on the night.
    • She is also very appreciative of what you do for her and is grateful for my interest.
    • From time to time I put out a plea for help in this column and was so grateful for the responses.
    • So if anyone has got any tips as to how I can calm my nerves before or during the flight I'd be very grateful.
    • I guess we all knew this was coming, and I am grateful that it seems to be so well managed and controlled.
    • To be offered a treat such as freshly baked shortbread is sure to raise a grateful smile.
    Synonyms
    thankful, filled with gratitude, appreciative
    indebted, obliged, obligated, under obligation, in your debt, beholden
    1. 1.1archaic Received or experienced with gratitude; welcome.
      the grateful shade
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And who is there, therefore, to whom, if prepared for heaven, the grave would not be a place of calm and grateful rest?
      • A short walk of perhaps a hundred yards beneath the grateful shade of wide-spreading mulberry trees covered with fruit and bearing in their branches numberless gaudy-hued, twittering songsters, brought one to the hotel.
      • Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.
      • The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.
      • After a much needed and grateful rest the Saints resumed their journey in the spring of 1854, arriving in Utah in October of that year.

Derivatives

  • gratefulness

  • noun ˈɡreɪtfʊlnəsˈɡreɪtf(ə)lnəsˈɡreɪtfəlnəs
    • I remember it with joy and gratefulness for all the times spent there.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This new plan has been welcomed by the entire community who extend their gratefulness to all those concerned in providing extra housing and activities for the elderly in their midst.
      • Expressions of gratefulness had a profound simplicity.
      • ‘Thank you, Baron’, Rudolf said in true gratefulness.
      • He was met with abuse as well as gratefulness for his visits.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from obsolete grate 'pleasing, thankful' (from Latin gratus) + -ful.

 
 

Definition of grateful in US English:

grateful

adjectiveˈɡrātfəlˈɡreɪtfəl
  • 1Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful.

    I'm very grateful to you for all your help
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When they reached their destination they gave their chocolate eggs to grateful parents.
    • From time to time I put out a plea for help in this column and was so grateful for the responses.
    • He was not disappointed and said he was grateful for the support of his family and staff.
    • I guess we all knew this was coming, and I am grateful that it seems to be so well managed and controlled.
    • So if anyone has got any tips as to how I can calm my nerves before or during the flight I'd be very grateful.
    • There are too many of you to email back personally, but I am very, very grateful.
    • The committee are very grateful to all who helped in the field and with the teas and in the shop.
    • If you have one hour free a week we would be grateful for your help with Community Games.
    • He is deeply grateful to all who sent him best wishes and were so kind and generous.
    • If anyone can tell me how to change the font for headings, I would be grateful.
    • I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that.
    • Equally I am grateful for the support he has received from many of your readers.
    • The tokens may be dropped in to the school and we would be grateful of your support.
    • Every year a large number of people come out and help and we are grateful for your support.
    • We are grateful for the support we have received from family, friends and the local community.
    • She is also very appreciative of what you do for her and is grateful for my interest.
    • Leaving the island at the end of the week, I was grateful for the chance to visit such a beautiful place.
    • Justice has been done and we are all so grateful to the police officers down there in Devon who have worked so hard.
    • The committee would be grateful for your help in hosting a table or being a guest on the night.
    • To be offered a treat such as freshly baked shortbread is sure to raise a grateful smile.
    Synonyms
    thankful, filled with gratitude, appreciative
    1. 1.1archaic Received or experienced with gratitude; welcome.
      enjoying the grateful shade
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.
      • After a much needed and grateful rest the Saints resumed their journey in the spring of 1854, arriving in Utah in October of that year.
      • And who is there, therefore, to whom, if prepared for heaven, the grave would not be a place of calm and grateful rest?
      • Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.
      • A short walk of perhaps a hundred yards beneath the grateful shade of wide-spreading mulberry trees covered with fruit and bearing in their branches numberless gaudy-hued, twittering songsters, brought one to the hotel.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from obsolete grate ‘pleasing, thankful’ (from Latin gratus) + -ful.

 
 
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