thankful

1 experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight we were thankful that someone else was footing the bill for the lavish wedding banquet Synonyms blissful, chuffed [British], delighted, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, glad, tickledRelated Words beaming, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, gay, gladsome, lighthearted, sunny, upbeat; gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, smiling; beatific, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, intoxicated, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical); exuberant, exultant, jubilant, rapt, rejoicing, thrilled; hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguineNear Antonyms 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, gray (also grey), grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, miserable, woebegone, wretchedAntonyms displeased, dissatisfied, joyless, sad, unhappy, unpleased, unsatisfied

2 feeling or expressing gratitude I am thankful for all your help Synonyms appreciative, appreciatory, glad, obliged, gratefulRelated Words beholden, indebted; contented, delighted, gratified, pleased, satisfied, tickled; thankingNear Antonyms inhospitable, rude, thoughtless, ungraciousAntonyms inappreciative, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful