grateful
feeling or showing gratitude
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,073 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,591 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- feeling or showing gratitude also: thankful a grateful heartgrateful for the tree's shade
- affording comfort or pleasure the grateful warmth of the fire
grateful in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Christian, as she passed him, gave her husband a grateful look.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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He seemed abundantly grateful for some unexplained benefits received from Ralph.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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It is a part of education to learn to be grateful.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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Her enjoyment of these things was so frank and grateful that the Cupps counted them among their own joys.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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In the vast forest here, Clad in my warlike gear, Fell I upon my spear, O, death was grateful!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1