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grateful

ˈgreɪtfəl
WordNet
The Dutch lion, standing on a pedestal with the inscription 'the grateful people', knocks a rider off his horse with its tail. Next to the pedestal is a woman with a coat of arms with a quiver and an ax on it. All around the picture portraits of nine Dutch ministers: Willem Treub, Nicolaas Bosboom, John Loudon, Bastiaan Ort, Folkert Posthuma, Cornelis Lely, Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte, Pieter Cort van der Linden and Jean Jacques Rambonnet.
The Dutch lion, standing on a pedestal with the inscription 'the grateful people', knocks a rider off his horse with its tail. Next to the pedestal is a woman with a coat of arms with a quiver and an ax on it. All around the picture portraits of nine Dutch ministers: Willem Treub, Nicolaas Bosboom, John Loudon, Bastiaan Ort, Folkert Posthuma, Cornelis Lely, Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte, Pieter Cort van der Linden and Jean Jacques Rambonnet.
  1. (adj) grateful
    feeling or showing gratitude "a grateful heart","grateful for the tree's shade","a thankful smile"
  2. (adj) grateful
    affording comfort or pleasure "the grateful warmth of the fire"
Illustrations
Garden with ground floor enclosed by grated corridors. In the center a fountain.
Garden with ground floor enclosed by grated corridors. In the center a fountain.
Natural bobbin lace cuff: Valenciennes lace. On a coarse grating ground (square grating), which is covered with 'sequins', is a running pattern. Hanging tulips facing one side are loose above the stretched scallops of a garland with hanging berries.
Natural bobbin lace cuff: Valenciennes lace. On a coarse grating ground (square grating), which is covered with 'sequins', is a running pattern. Hanging tulips facing one side are loose above the stretched scallops of a garland with hanging berries.
Strip of natural bobbin lace: Valenciennes lace. On a coarse grating ground (square grating), which is covered with 'sequins', is a running pattern. Hanging tulips facing one side are loose above the stretched scallops of a garland with hanging berries. The strip is doubled, a narrower strip with a similar pattern is sewn along the straight top (BK-BR-J-321-C).
Strip of natural bobbin lace: Valenciennes lace. On a coarse grating ground (square grating), which is covered with 'sequins', is a running pattern. Hanging tulips facing one side are loose above the stretched scallops of a garland with hanging berries. The strip is doubled, a narrower strip with a similar pattern is sewn along the straight top (BK-BR-J-321-C).
A grateful patriot, member of a free corps, hangs the portraits of Hendrik Hooft Danielsz. and Isaac van Goudoever at a column of honor, 1792. Behind the monument Faam blows its trumpet, and a spitz sits on the ground. With a two-layer verse.
A grateful patriot, member of a free corps, hangs the portraits of Hendrik Hooft Danielsz. and Isaac van Goudoever at a column of honor, 1792. Behind the monument Faam blows its trumpet, and a spitz sits on the ground. With a two-layer verse.
A grateful patriot, member of a free corps, hangs a portrait of Hendrik Hooft Danielsz. at a column of honor, 1787. Behind the monument Faam blows its trumpet, and a spitz sits on the ground.
A grateful patriot, member of a free corps, hangs a portrait of Hendrik Hooft Danielsz. at a column of honor, 1787. Behind the monument Faam blows its trumpet, and a spitz sits on the ground.
A burning, ornamented fireplace with grate and ash collection. In the bottom margin a six-line German text.
A burning, ornamented fireplace with grate and ash collection. In the bottom margin a six-line German text.
Saint Lawrence with a book, palm branch and the grate on which he was burned alive. Coat of arms and dedication in bottom margin.
Saint Lawrence with a book, palm branch and the grate on which he was burned alive. Coat of arms and dedication in bottom margin.
An iron beaten grate. Part of the stem is missing.
An iron beaten grate. Part of the stem is missing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
  1. grateful
    Pleasing to the mind or the senses; agreeable; gratifying; affording pleasure.
  2. grateful
    Betokening or expressing gratitude; denoting thankfulness.
  3. grateful
    Feeling kindly or tenderly on account of a favor or favors bestowed; disposed to acknowledge and repay benefits.
  4. grateful
    Synonyms Grateful, Thankful, beholden. Grateful is preferred when we speak of the general character of a person's mind: as, a man of a grateful disposition; an ungrateful wretch. Grateful often expresses the feeling, and the readiness to manifest the feeling by acts, even a long time after the rendering of the favor; thankful refers rather to the immediate acknowledgment of the favor by words. The same distinction is found in the negative forms, ungrateful, unthankful, thankless. Thankful is often loosely used for relieved or glad, where the thanks, if rendered, would be given to a merciful or helping Providence: as, I am thankful for my escape.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Grateful
    grāt′fōōl causing pleasure: acceptable: delightful: thankful: having a due sense of benefits
Quotations
Gunther Grass
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Gunther Grass
Eric Hoffer
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer
Henry Ward Beecher
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Phyllis Mcginley
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Grate, a. + full,; cf. F. gré, thanks, good will, fr. L. gratum, neut. of gratus, agreeable, grateful. See Grate (a.)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. grat—L. gratus, pleasing, thankful, and suff. -ful.

Usage in the news

Watch as she opens up to Oprah about getting older, her biggest regret in life and the do-over she was grateful to have. oprah.com

Spear said he's grateful to Vail Resorts for supporting the 22,000 work hours that went into building it. gjfreepress.com

If you could obtain the recipe for chicken Gorgonzola with spinach from La Finestra restaurant, we would be forever grateful. dbj7.com

'It's terrible that Gram died so young, but I'm grateful that our paths crossed'. rollingstone.com

Following on from this piece about the proposed or mooted boycott of Apple over conditions at Foxconn in China, I am grateful to Paul Arnett for providing us with this graphic visualisation of the argument. forbes.com

Antonio Devon Grate Memorial Scholarship Fund to present program Nov 10. gtowntimes.com

Jessica Grate and Greg Joseph announce their engagement and upcoming Dec 15, 2012, wedding. advertiser-tribune.com

Inmate escapes Hinds County Detention Center through grate . apt.com

An inmate escaped from the Hinds County Detention Center early Friday morning through a grate , the sheriff said. apt.com

George Grate , 81, of Rutland, died on Saturday, October 6, 2012, at his residence. mydailysentinel.com

Nana and papaw love with 3 of there grate grate grandkids. t-g.com

The Grates – Turn Me On Great Big Sea – Love Me Tonight Gaslight Anthem – Great Expectations Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Into the Great Wide Open. 1061thecorner.com

The metal grate sits just feet from the fountain where children can cool off. jla.com

Mike Abernathy uses a saw to cut steel grating at Grating Fabricators Inc in Vancouver. columbian.com

Taking Back From the Grating -est Generation. online.wsj.com

Usage in scientific papers

We are grateful to Rich Bass for useful discussions, and to Alan Hammond and Gabor Pete for helpful comments on the manuscript.
Identifying several biased coins encountered by a hidden random walk

Part of this work was made during a summer visit at the ECT* center of theoretical physics near Trento (Italy), to which the authors are very grateful.
Large amplitude spin waves in ultra-cold gases

The final part of this research was done during author’s vizit to Sao Paulo University, Brazil, due to FAPESP. I am grateful for this support. I thank also for RFFI supporting (grant N 01-01-00674).
Invariants of mixed representations of quivers II : defining relations and applications

I am grateful to Peter Goldreich and Re’em Sari for pointing this out to me.
Dynamical evolution of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks

In particular, he suggested Example 12.7. I am grateful to Marc Rieffel for discussions concerning higher dimensional noncommutative toruses, and in particular for pointing out that it was not known whether a higher dimensional noncommutative torus is isomorphic to its opposite algebra.
Crossed products by finite cyclic group actions with the tracial Rokhlin property

Usage in literature

How grateful would be her advice. "The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari" by James S. De Benneville

What he desired, at the bottom of his heart, was to give himself freely, gratefully to some higher and purer being. "The Child of Pleasure" by Gabriele D'Annunzio

I must likewise say how very grateful I feel for the kind and excellent advice you gave me in it. "The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)" by Queen Victoria

There was a fire in the brass grate, although it was summer weather. "Mary Gray" by Katharine Tynan

There is dirt everywhere, in the air, under my feet, in the grate, on the altar. "My New Curate" by P.A. Sheehan

He clung to them gratefully. "Gigolo" by Edna Ferber

She turned on him a grateful glance for his tact and forbearance, and hastened to lead the way from the gun-room. "The Hand in the Dark" by Arthur J. Rees

I'm ever so grateful to you. "The Secret of the Storm Country" by Grace Miller White

At the sound of our bows grating on her side one of her crew ran aft and looked over. "Kilgorman" by Talbot Baines Reed

Where in the world is there a tonic equal to the laugh of a light- hearted grateful little boy? "A Dog with a Bad Name" by Talbot Baines Reed

Usage in poetry
As, I sit by the ruddy oak fire,
And feel the grateful glow,
Come mem'ries sweet of a rustic cot,
That stood near the pebbly shore.
"Nestle-Down Cottage" by Mary Weston Fordham
The fire is burning in the grate
As redly as it used to burn,
But still the hearth is desolate
Till Mirth and Love with Peace return.
"Monday Night May 11th 1846 / domestic peace" by Anne Bronte Author object (43)
That land the wrath of Heaven may spare.
When ruthless nations groan;
Her guarded orphan's grateful prayer
May rise to mercy's throne.
"Two Hymns" by William Hayley Author object (706)
The fire is burning in the grate
As redly as it used to burn;
But still the hearth is desolate,
Till mirth, and love, and PEACE return.
"Domestic Peace" by Anne Bronte Author object (43)
Yet Thou wilt hear the prayer we speak,
The song of praise we sing,--
Thy children, who thine altar seek
Their grateful gifts to bring.
"Hymn For The Fair At Chicago" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)
Abner.
Thanks, gentle youth! with pleasure I receive
The grateful offering. Why does thy quick eye
Thus wander with unsatisfied delight?
"David And Goliath. A Sacred Drama" by Hannah More Author object (271)