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grateful English

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What does grateful mean?

Definitions in simple English

grateful Adjective

— If you are grateful for or about something, you want to say, "thank you" because of it. I'm very grateful for your kindness during this difficult time.

grateful

— adjective (= thankful) feeling or showing gratitude a grateful heart grateful for the tree's shade a thankful smile — adjective affording comfort or pleasure the grateful warmth of the fire

Synonyms grateful synonyms

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grateful English » English

thankful appreciative gratitude obliged indebted thank pleasant gratifying pleasurable pleasing appreciatory agreeable welcome sympathizing sweet satisfied pleased personable palatable nice loyal lovely likeable likable joyful happy gratified good gainly fertile faithful evoking gratitude engaging dulcet delightful contented conscientious comfortable cheerful beholden be grateful appreciated appealing affectionate

Topics grateful topics

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Language and thought Communication Say Praise

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What words describe a person who feels thankful?

thankful grateful gratefully appreciate appreciative be indebted to owe

Examples grateful examples

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Simple sentences

Mary will be very grateful if Tom comes for lunch in time.

Mary would be very grateful if Tom was more supportive of her.

I am more than grateful to you for your help.

I am deeply grateful to you for your kindness.

I am grateful to you for your help.

I'd be very grateful if you'd help me.

We're very grateful for your hospitality.

We are grateful to you for your help.

I'm very grateful for your help.

I am very grateful to you for what you've done for my family.

We are very grateful for what you did.

I cannot be too grateful for my parents' kindness.

I am very grateful to you for your help.

I'm so grateful to you for this opportunity.

I would be grateful for your approval of this request.

Movie subtitles

When I think of my mother, I'm grateful and I start to cry.

No, I'm grateful.

Brigham Young was so grateful, he decided to join the Mormons on their journey.

We are giving this for your children that are starving, so you better be very grateful for them.

So that's why I'm grateful to you.

I am so grateful to be here, and I'm excited to face my problems head-on.

We're very grateful.

I hate conflict, and I don't want Oliver to think that I'm not grateful.

For the photography I am grateful to Mr. Johan Ankerstjerne and to Mr. Richard Louw for the art direction.

Why, of course. And I'm very grateful.

Mother'll be so grateful, she'll probably want to kiss you.

It's the mothers that are grateful to me.

Are you grateful? No.

I ought to be grateful to you, I suppose.

No, I'm grateful. You pushed my schedule forward a great deal.

I'm grateful.

We know France brings progress and we are grateful.

I will be grateful.

I'm grateful for this magnificent washout, ah, turnout.

And I'm very grateful.

Mother'll be so grateful, she'll want to kiss you.

It's the mothers that are always grateful to me.

I know I oughtn't to presume, but I'm so grateful to you.

I dont know if I ought to be grateful to you or not.

For the great victory you have won, Sweden is grateful.

Over here.you can take them. This is barley and potatos and corn. We are giving this for your children that are starving, so you better be very grateful for them.

You should have been grateful to find it out.

I am grateful.

Yes, I'm grateful this whole thing's happened because if I had never met you again, I might have gone through life clinging to an image in my mind, a phantom that I'd been drinking to for years, when all the time I had a wonderful reality in my arms.

I'm so grateful, Eddie.

I'm more grateful than I can tell you.

This young man should be very grateful to you, Mrs. Marley.

And I'm very grateful to you.

If you're grateful, you can prove it.

News and current affairs

To empower global society to act, Ban has launched a bold new global initiative, for which I am grateful to volunteer.

Perhaps international investors will be grateful to the US for its aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus, which will accelerate sharply when President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20.

And we should be grateful that they do.

Nonetheless, we should be grateful: it is better to be standing still than it is to be heading in the wrong direction.

Will these countries continue to sacrifice for the common European good when, time after time, the big countries tell them to go to the back of the bus and be grateful for the ride?

Instead, most are grateful to be working at all.

They should be grateful, rather than foolishly insist that China take it back.

Above all, we should be grateful to the police forces and intelligence agencies whose unflagging hard work and dedication far away from the public eye help keep us safe.

True, we tend to align ourselves these days more with Venus than Mars, something for which the rest of the world should be deeply grateful.

For that we should be grateful.

Rather than bash the BIS, monetary authorities should be grateful for the informed perspectives that it provides.

Some would even have been grateful.

Many politicians, no doubt, will be grateful for the support of their universities, NGOs, and leading businesses.

Though the German government does not officially support quantitative easing, it should be grateful to the ECB for calming financial markets.

Participants included nomads, farmers, and students, who in theory should have been the most grateful to China for modernizing Tibet's economy.

The people of Liberia are grateful for the strong support we have received as we have moved from the crisis of the past to the opportunity of the present.

Nobody in Russia - aside from a few corrupt officials - is grateful for this aid.

From this point of view, Merkel should be grateful to Cameron for the distraction that he created in Brussels.

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