THANKFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thankful mean? 

• THANKFUL (adjective)
  The adjective THANKFUL has 1 sense:

1. feeling or showing gratitude

  Familiarity information: THANKFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THANKFUL (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)

Derivation:

thankfulness (warm friendly feelings of gratitude)

 Context examples 

I always say a woman cannot have too many resources—and I feel very thankful that I have so many myself as to be quite independent of society.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You're thankful to her, and you love her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was most thankful for her own knowledge of him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am so thankful to you, sir, for coming.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She could not but be thankful.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Are you not very thankful to have such a fine place to live at?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If you and Miss Bennet will defer yours till I am out of the room, I shall be very thankful; and then you may say whatever you like of me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There is the more reason that I should be thankful that I am still long of breath and sound in limb.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"They are, indeed," said the Scarecrow, "and I am thankful I am made of straw and cannot be easily damaged. There are worse things in the world than being a Scarecrow."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Also, I was very thankful as I put the gun away and slipped back on deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)