grateful
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Synonyms
appreciative, appreciatory, glad, obliged, thankful
Antonyms
inappreciative, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful
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As to the mutual friend who contacted you the next day, be grateful. — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, "Dear Abby: Stepmom who pays the bills would like a say on how back-paid child support is distributed," 30 Aug. 2019 After a nearly year-long search, Johnson was grateful to land a gig as a webmaster at a local company. — Wired, "How Smaller Cities Are Trying to Plug America’s Brain Drain," 12 Aug. 2019 In the case of the pedophilia recommendation chain, YouTube should be grateful to the user who found and exposed it. — Guillaume Chaslot, WIRED, "The Toxic Potential of YouTube’s Feedback Loop," 13 July 2019 But Cameron is also grateful for where her struggles have gotten her. — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, "Dove Cameron on “Descendants 3”, Growing Up with Disney, and Falling In Love with Thomas Doherty and Herself," 31 July 2019 Sure, being surrounded by your nearest and dearest alone is more than enough to be grateful for, but a bit of scripture can also help put the holiday in check with a reminder of your many, many blessings. — Blair Donovan, Country Living, "25 Best Thanksgiving Bible Verses to Enjoy After (or During!) Your Turkey Dinner," 23 July 2019 While clearly a fan of the arts and philosophy, Khachan is, however, familiar with and grateful for the power of the Internet—and always has been. — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, "This Store Sells Only Chess-Related Products—With Hopes to Win Over Millennials," 21 July 2019 This amount was set at the previous state budget allocation of 1.66 percent to the Ohio Public Library Fund, which still made Shaker Library Director Amy Switzer grateful. — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, "Shaker Library Board’s “Resolution of Gratitude” rings true on state budget," 20 July 2019 These businesses have pledged to give you a chance Metz was grateful for the legal shifts, but political momentum alone would not carry her through school. — Casey Parks, USA Today, "'You don't know what you did for me': Released from prison by Obama, now on the dean's list," 8 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'grateful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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