grateful

A2 Topic:Emotions & Feelings

US /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ UK /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ʊ)l/ See IPA manual

Freq #2222

Meanings

1

adj
Feeling or showing thanks for something good that someone has done.

I'm grateful that you helped me out.

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Synonyms

1 adj · feeling or showing thanks... thankful appreciative

Word family

Derived forms gratefully gratefulness ingratefulovergratefulpergratefulungrateful

Related forms gratitude ingrate

Etymology

From grate (“(obsolete) serving to gratify, agreeable, pleasing; grateful, thankful”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of tending to have or thoroughly having a quality). Grate is a learned borrowing from Latin grātus (“agreeable, pleasing; beloved, dear; grateful, thankful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to express approval, praise; to elevate”).

*gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European grātus Latin

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# grateful

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ʊ)l/
**Frequency rank:** 2222

## Meanings
1. Feeling or showing thanks for something good that someone has done.

## Examples
- I'm grateful that you helped me out.

## Derived Forms
- gratefully
- gratefulness
- ingrateful
- overgrateful
- pergrateful
- ungrateful

## Related Forms
- gratitude
- ingrate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *gʷerH-
- Root: grātus

## Etymology
From grate (“(obsolete) serving to gratify, agreeable, pleasing; grateful, thankful”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of tending to have or thoroughly having a quality). Grate is a learned borrowing from Latin grātus (“agreeable, pleasing; beloved, dear; grateful, thankful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to express approval, praise; to elevate”).

## AI Etymology
Grateful comes from grate (“(obsolete) serving to gratify, agreeable, pleasing; grateful, thankful”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of tending to have or thoroughly having a quality). Grate is a learned borrowing from Latin grātus (“agreeable, pleasing; beloved, dear; grateful, thankful”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to express approval, praise; to elevate”). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main sense is “Feeling or showing thanks for something good that someone has done”.

## Topics
- Emotions & Feelings

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