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grateful
['gretfəl]
a. 感谢, 感激, 令快意, 受欢迎
  1. Your kindness is grateful.
    善令感激。
  2. He was grateful for all you did.
    感激。
  3. I can't express how grateful I am.
    感激。




grateful
[ adj ]
  1. feeling or showing gratitude

  2. <adj.all>
    a grateful heart
    grateful for the tree's shade
    a thankful smile
  3. affording comfort or pleasure

  4. <adj.all>
    the grateful warmth of the fire




Grateful \Grate"ful\, a. [Grate, a. + full; cf. F. gr['e]
thanks, good will, fr. L. gratum, neut. of gratus agreeable,
grateful. See {Grate}, a.]
1. Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed
toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to
acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a
grateful heart.

A grateful mind
By owing, owes not, but still pays. --Milton.

2. Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying;
delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the
palate; grateful sleep.

Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine,
And grateful clusters swell. --Pope.

Syn: Thankful; pleasing; acceptable; gratifying; agreeable;
welcome; delightful; delicious. -- {Grate"ful*ly}, adv.
-- {Grate"ful*ness}, n.