thankful

[thangk-fuhl]

adjective

1. feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.

   Synonyms: indebted, beholden, obliged, grateful

thankful

/ ˈθæŋkfʊl /

adjective

1. grateful and appreciative

Other Word Forms

• thankfully adverb
• thankfulness noun
• superthankful adjective
• superthankfully adverb
• superthankfulness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of thankful¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English thancful; thank, -ful

Synonym Study

See grateful.

Example Sentences

Investors already have something to be thankful for as the stock market’s selloff looks to have stopped for now.

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Full from dinner, the friends each describe a thing they are thankful for.

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She said the family were "in awe" of the home, which featured heavily in the 2019 Christmas special and consider themselves very thankful to have bought it.

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Next week we’ll ask, “What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?”

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In other words: if she was still here, still breathing, it was a good day, and she was thankful for it.

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Related Words

• contented 
• grateful 
• indebted 
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• relieved 
• satisfied