Entry Word: grateful

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 feeling or expressing gratitude <was grateful for her neighbor's help after she broke her foot>

Synonyms appreciative, obliged, thankful

Related Words beholden, indebted; gratified, pleased; thanking

Antonyms thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful, unthankful

2 giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses <glad for the grateful warmth of the fire on such a cold day> — see pleasant