Synonyms of grateful

grateful

adjective

ˈgrāt-fəl 

1

as in thankful

feeling or expressing gratitude

she was grateful for her neighbor's help after she broke her foot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thankful
• appreciative
• glad
• indebted
• obliged
• thanking
• appreciatory
• delighted
• beholden
• pleased
• contented
• satisfied
• gratified
• tickled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ungrateful
• unappreciative
• thankless
• thoughtless
• rude
• inappreciative
• ungracious
• inhospitable

2

as in pleasant

giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses

I'm glad for the grateful warmth of the fire on such a cold day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pleasant
• delicious
• delightful
• enjoyable
• nice
• pleasing
• sweet
• welcome
• good
• satisfying
• heavenly
• blessed
• happy
• pretty
• pleasurable
• gratifying
• comforting
• jolly
• comfortable
• amusing
• tempting
• blest
• agreeable
• congenial
• soothing
• tasty
• darling
• felicitous
• dreamy
• fascinating
• desirable
• palatable
• luscious
• delectable
• savory
• attractive
• charming
• savoury
• cheerful
• glad
• inviting
• blissful
• dulcet
• gracious
• entertaining
• delightsome
• enviable
• alluring
• kindly
• joyous
• enchanting
• ecstatic
• hospitable
• calming
• amiable
• cheery
• good-natured
• affable
• goodly
• personable
• relishable
• genial
• exhilarating
• euphoric
• rapturous
• recreative
• felicific
• diverting
• elating
• intoxicating
• gemütlich
• nirvanic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unpleasant
• disagreeable
• unwelcome
• miserable
• sad
• wretched
• unpalatable
• horrid
• disgusting
• abominable
• repugnant
• hateful
• ghastly
• obnoxious
• repulsive
• unhappy
• offensive
• hellish
• vile
• distasteful
• odious
• abhorrent
• irksome
• tedious
• detestable
• flat
• repellent
• commonplace
• unsavory
• boring
• dull
• bilious
• tragic
• regrettable
• insipid
• gloomy
• pleasureless
• depressing
• sorrowful
• disheartening
• stale
• displeasing
• deplorable
• annoying
• dismal
• lamentable
• dreary
• mournful
• revulsive
• heartbreaking
• irritating
• joyless
• yucky
• god-awful
• exasperating
• aggravating
• vexing
• doleful
• hostile
• lugubrious
• tragical
• lachrymose
• yukky
• repellant
• perturbing
• heartrending
• dissatisfying
• disturbing
• dolorous
• infuriating
• maddening
• forbidding
• upsetting
• distressing
• intimidating
• peeving
• enraging
• angering
• rankling
• outraging
• incensing
• riling
• inflaming
• enflaming

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grateful people

gracious people

appreciative people

generous-hearted people

generous-minded people

charitable people

grateful thanks

gracious thanks

generous thanks

cheerful thanks

ecstatic thanks

enthusiastic thanks

a grateful heart

a thankful heart

a gratified heart

an appreciative heart

a faithful heart

a gleeful heart

grateful tears

appreciative tears

joyous tears

happy tears

joyful tears

gracious tears

grateful praise

glorious praise

great praise

cheerful praise

thankful praise

divine praise

Examples of grateful in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Florida residents who fled hundreds of miles to escape Hurricane Milton made slow trips home on crowded highways, weary from their long journeys and the cleanup work awaiting them but also grateful to be coming back alive. —CBS News, 12 Oct. 2024

His way of coping was to just be grateful when the violence was over. —Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024

We are heartbroken by this tragedy and are grateful for the outpouring of support that community members have shown during this time. —Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2024

Brat Summer would never have died, but its most grateful acolytes would never have lived. —Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024