grateful🔊

Of a person or their actions, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.

(archaic) Of a thing or (obsolete) person: pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable, pleasant, welcome.

💬 Quotations

[T]his is a guift / Very gratefull, I am sure of it, to expresse / The like kindnesse my selfe, that have beene / More kindely beholding to you then any: […]

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

[…] Waverley, […] walked slowly down the avenue, enjoying the grateful and cooling shade, and so much pleased with the placid ideas of rest and seclusion excited by this confined and quiet scene, that he forgot the misery and dirt of the hamlet he had left behind him.

Walter Scott, Waverley

Fell I upon my spear, / O, death was grateful!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor

All balmy from the groves of Tahiti, came an indolent air, cooled by its transit over the waters; and grateful under foot, was the damp and slightly yielding beach, from which the waves seemed just retired.

Herman Melville, Omoo

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