adj

grateful

GRAYTFL

adj

Feeling or showing thanks and appreciation for something.

"I'm so grateful for all your help this year."

"She was grateful that the doctor had caught the problem early."

How to Use Grateful

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishFeeling thankful for something someone did or something good that happened.

Common mistake

Grateful is followed by "for" (grateful for the gift) or "to" (grateful to you), not "about".

Common pairings

grateful for deeply grateful grateful to someone

gratefuller comparative, more grateful comparative, gratefullest superlative, most grateful superlative

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I'm so _____ for all your help this year.

From an older sense of "grate" meaning pleasing or agreeable, from Latin grātus ("pleasing, thankful") + -ful.

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