GRATITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gratitude mean? 

• GRATITUDE (noun)
  The noun GRATITUDE has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation

  Familiarity information: GRATITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRATITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help

Hypernyms ("gratitude" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gratitude"):

appreciativeness; gratefulness; thankfulness (warm friendly feelings of gratitude)

Antonym:

ingratitude (a lack of gratitude)

 Context examples 

I remember her telling me at the ball, that I owed Mrs. Elton gratitude for her attentions to Miss Fairfax.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Jo heard that, but made no answer, except to kiss her mother, and walk rapidly away, thinking with a glow of gratitude, in spite of her heartache, How good she is to me!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You will have a sweet little wife; all gratitude and devotion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He professes humility and gratitude—with truth, perhaps: I hope so—but his position is really one of power, and I fear he makes a hard use of his power.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Grateful! I cannot remember detecting gratitude in his face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"It is over! it is over!" she repeated to herself again and again, in nervous gratitude.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Not only we as individuals, but European science collectively, owe you a deep debt of gratitude for what you have done.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

James accepted this tribute of gratitude, and qualified his conscience for accepting it too, by saying with perfect sincerity, “Indeed, Catherine, I love you dearly.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I shall know better in time; and believe me that, though I am not ungrateful now, my gratitude will grow with my understanding.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)