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		Definition of grateful in English: gratefuladjective ˈɡreɪtf(ə)lˈɡreɪtfʊlˈɡreɪtfəl 1Feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received. 感激的;感谢的  I'm grateful to you for all your help 对您给我的一切帮助,我感激不尽。  she gave him a grateful smile Example sentencesExamples -  If you have one hour free a week we would be grateful for your help with Community Games.
 -  He was not disappointed and said he was grateful for the support of his family and staff.
 -  Every year a large number of people come out and help and we are grateful for your support.
 -  Leaving the island at the end of the week, I was grateful for the chance to visit such a beautiful place.
 -  Justice has been done and we are all so grateful to the police officers down there in Devon who have worked so hard.
 -  There are too many of you to email back personally, but I am very, very grateful.
 -  He is deeply grateful to all who sent him best wishes and were so kind and generous.
 -  The tokens may be dropped in to the school and we would be grateful of your support.
 -  The committee are very grateful to all who helped in the field and with the teas and in the shop.
 -  Equally I am grateful for the support he has received from many of your readers.
 -  If anyone can tell me how to change the font for headings, I would be grateful.
 -  When they reached their destination they gave their chocolate eggs to grateful parents.
 -  I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that.
 -  We are grateful for the support we have received from family, friends and the local community.
 -  The committee would be grateful for your help in hosting a table or being a guest on the night.
 -  She is also very appreciative of what you do for her and is grateful for my interest.
 -  From time to time I put out a plea for help in this column and was so grateful for the responses.
 -  So if anyone has got any tips as to how I can calm my nerves before or during the flight I'd be very grateful.
 -  I guess we all knew this was coming, and I am grateful that it seems to be so well managed and controlled.
 -  To be offered a treat such as freshly baked shortbread is sure to raise a grateful smile.
 
 Synonyms thankful, filled with gratitude, appreciative indebted, obliged, obligated, under obligation, in your debt, beholden - 1.1archaic  Received or experienced with gratitude; welcome.
〈古〉令人获得快意的;受欢迎的 享受着宜人的荫凉。 Example sentencesExamples -  And who is there, therefore, to whom, if prepared for heaven, the grave would not be a place of calm and grateful rest?
 -  A short walk of perhaps a hundred yards beneath the grateful shade of wide-spreading mulberry trees covered with fruit and bearing in their branches numberless gaudy-hued, twittering songsters, brought one to the hotel.
 -  Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.
 -  The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.
 -  After a much needed and grateful rest the Saints resumed their journey in the spring of 1854, arriving in Utah in October of that year.
 
  
 
 OriginMid 16th century: from obsolete grate 'pleasing, thankful' (from Latin gratus) + -ful.    Definition of grateful in US English: gratefuladjectiveˈɡrātfəlˈɡreɪtfəl 1Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful. 感激的;感谢的  I'm very grateful to you for all your help 对您给我的一切帮助,我感激不尽。 Example sentencesExamples -  When they reached their destination they gave their chocolate eggs to grateful parents.
 -  From time to time I put out a plea for help in this column and was so grateful for the responses.
 -  He was not disappointed and said he was grateful for the support of his family and staff.
 -  I guess we all knew this was coming, and I am grateful that it seems to be so well managed and controlled.
 -  So if anyone has got any tips as to how I can calm my nerves before or during the flight I'd be very grateful.
 -  There are too many of you to email back personally, but I am very, very grateful.
 -  The committee are very grateful to all who helped in the field and with the teas and in the shop.
 -  If you have one hour free a week we would be grateful for your help with Community Games.
 -  He is deeply grateful to all who sent him best wishes and were so kind and generous.
 -  If anyone can tell me how to change the font for headings, I would be grateful.
 -  I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that.
 -  Equally I am grateful for the support he has received from many of your readers.
 -  The tokens may be dropped in to the school and we would be grateful of your support.
 -  Every year a large number of people come out and help and we are grateful for your support.
 -  We are grateful for the support we have received from family, friends and the local community.
 -  She is also very appreciative of what you do for her and is grateful for my interest.
 -  Leaving the island at the end of the week, I was grateful for the chance to visit such a beautiful place.
 -  Justice has been done and we are all so grateful to the police officers down there in Devon who have worked so hard.
 -  The committee would be grateful for your help in hosting a table or being a guest on the night.
 -  To be offered a treat such as freshly baked shortbread is sure to raise a grateful smile.
 
 Synonyms thankful, filled with gratitude, appreciative - 1.1archaic  Received or experienced with gratitude; welcome.
〈古〉令人获得快意的;受欢迎的  enjoying the grateful shade 享受着宜人的荫凉。 Example sentencesExamples -  The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.
 -  After a much needed and grateful rest the Saints resumed their journey in the spring of 1854, arriving in Utah in October of that year.
 -  And who is there, therefore, to whom, if prepared for heaven, the grave would not be a place of calm and grateful rest?
 -  Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.
 -  A short walk of perhaps a hundred yards beneath the grateful shade of wide-spreading mulberry trees covered with fruit and bearing in their branches numberless gaudy-hued, twittering songsters, brought one to the hotel.
 
  
 
 OriginMid 16th century: from obsolete grate ‘pleasing, thankful’ (from Latin gratus) + -ful.     |