grateful
adjEtymology
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”).
Definitions
Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.
Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
- I’m grateful that you helped me out.
- I cannot giue thee leſſe to be cal'd gratefull: / Thou thoughtſt to helpe me, and ſuch thankes I giue, / As one neere death to thoſe that vviſh him liue: […]
Of a thing or (obsolete) person
Of a thing or (obsolete) person: pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable, pleasant, welcome.
- [T]his is a guift / Very gratefull, I am ſure of it, to expreſſe / The like kindneſſe my ſelfe, that haue beene / More kindely beholding to you then any: […]
- Chaſt, nothing better; vvanton, nothing vvorſe, / The grate-fulſt Bleſsing, or the greateſt Curſe.
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Derived
gratefully, gratefulness, ingrateful, overgrateful, pergrateful, ungrateful
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at grateful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at grateful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at grateful
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA