GRATEFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grateful mean? 

• GRATEFUL (adjective)
  The adjective GRATEFUL has 2 senses:

1. feeling or showing gratitude

2. affording comfort or pleasure

  Familiarity information: GRATEFUL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRATEFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling or showing gratitude

Synonyms:

grateful; thankful

Context example:

a thankful smile

Similar:

appreciative (feeling or expressive of gratitude)

glad (feeling happy appreciation)

Antonym:

ungrateful (not feeling or showing gratitude)

Derivation:

gratefulness (warm friendly feelings of gratitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Affording comfort or pleasure

Context example:

the grateful warmth of the fire

Similar:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

 Context examples 

"What do you know about him?" asked Laurie, grateful for the good advice, but objecting to the lecture, and glad to turn the conversation from himself after his unusual outbreak.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Kelly subsided with some muttering, and the Kanaka flashed his white teeth in a grateful smile.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Fanny will feel quite as grateful as the occasion requires,” was Edmund's only reply, and the subject dropt.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Better accommodations, he can promise them, and not a less grateful welcome than at Randalls.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I felt so grateful to Agnes, and admired her so!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Oh, Madam Mina, I will be grateful; you will do me much favour."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Grateful! I cannot remember detecting gratitude in his face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The money therefore which Eleanor had advanced was enclosed with little more than grateful thanks, and the thousand good wishes of a most affectionate heart.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Elinor's thanks followed this speech with grateful earnestness; attended too with the assurance of her expecting material advantage to Marianne, from the communication of what had passed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You will find November to be less strenuous than October, and for that, you will likely be grateful.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)