Definition of thankful
- for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful
- thankful service
- was thankful that it didn't rain
Everyone was thankful to hear the good news.
we were thankful that someone else was footing the bill for the lavish wedding banquet
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before 12th century
displeased, dissatisfied, joyless, sad, unhappy, unpleased, unsatisfied;
abject, aggrieved, anguished, blue, brokenhearted, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, melancholy;
doleful, dolorous, lachrymose, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, sorry, woeful;
black, dark, desolate, dispirited, gloomy, glum, grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, miserable, woebegone, wretched;
blithe, blithesome, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, gay, gladsome, lighthearted, sunny, upbeat;
gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, smiling;
beatific, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical);
: glad that something has happened or not happened, that something or someone exists, etc.
: of, relating to, or expressing thanks
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