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grateful

gra·te·ful

UK/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ʊ)l/ US/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ common

adjective

1.

feeling or showing gratitude

  • “a grateful heart”
  • “grateful for the tree”
  • “;”
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2.

affording comfort or pleasure

  • “the grateful warmth of the fire”
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Origin

From grate (“(obsolete) serving to gratify, agreeable, pleasing; grateful, thankful”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of tending to have or thoroughly having a quality). Grate is a learned borrowing from Latin grātus (“agreeable, pleasing; beloved, dear; grateful, thankful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to express approval, praise; to elevate”).

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