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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state of being grateful; thankfulness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or quality of being grateful or thankful; a warm and friendly feeling in response to a favor or favors received; thankfulness.
  2. n. Synonyms See grateful.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being grateful.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation

Etymologies

  1. From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin gratitudo ("thankfulness"), from Latin gratus ("thankful"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, probably from Late Latin grātitūdō, from Latin grātus, pleasing; see gwerə-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It was gratitude; —gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.”

    Chapter XLIV

  • “Long-term gratitude is unlikely and suspicion of U.S. motives will increase as the occupation continues.”

    Blind Into Baghdad

  • “The third reason for our gratitude is the decision of the General Assembly to overwhelmingly return us to the Security Council.”

    The United States and the United Nations

  • “The sense which we call gratitude, and which is not unmingled with what we call honor, came to this young cave man then.”

    The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man

  • “She did not comprehend, perhaps, the depth of the sentiment with which her protector inspired her, which she called gratitude, but which, though she was unconscious of it, was really more than that.”

    Around the World in Eighty Days

  • “It is what parades represent - a celebration, a commemoration, and an expression of gratitude by a community that has finally learned to separate the war from warriors.”

    The Huffington Post: Paul Rieckhoff: If the Giants or Pats get a parade, shouldn't Iraq vets?

  • “Not in gratitude, but in oxytocin; the elevation that comes from community, from purpose.”

    the cadillacs come creeping through the night and the poison gas

  • “She will also be missed by her former owner who actually bought me 40 lbs. of cat food in gratitude for my giving the kittens a home.”

    Kitten Chantho dies

  • “So I went ahead and borrowed a blue ribbon and am "wearing" it on my blog this week in gratitude for the very fact that I can do so, openly, without fear of suppression, persecution, or death.”

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. thankfulness
  1. appreciation
  1. gratefulness

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. ingratitude

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. feeling

hyponyms (3)

Words that are more specific

  1. thankfulness
  1. gratefulness
  1. appreciativeness

same context (10)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. tenderness
  2. admiration
  1. pity
  2. satisfaction
  1. enthusiasm
  2. grief
  1. awe
  2. humility
  1. appreciation
  2. sadness

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. attitude
  1. latitude

reverse dictionary (60)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. thankfulness
  2. gratefulness
  3. appreciativeness
  4. thank
  5. indebted
  6. ingratitude
  7. imperfect obligations
  8. love
  9. halleluiah
  10. thank-offering
  11. beholden
  12. aggrate
  1. gratefully
  2. gratulatory
  3. Klein
  4. grateful
  5. thank-you
  6. shout-out
  7. gramercy
  8. undying
  9. first fruits
  10. thankless
  11. ungrateful
  12. thankful
  1. thanksgiving
  2. acknowledge
  3. bow
  4. faithful
  5. thank you
  6. thankless wretch
  7. unappreciative
  8. ungrateful person
  9. ungratefulness
  10. unthankful
  11. appreciation
  12. bread-and-butter
  1. appreciate
  2. welcome
  3. tribute
  4. thanks
  5. fall all over
  6. give thanks
  7. ingrate
  8. recognise
  9. recognize
  10. appreciative
  11. obligated
  12. praise
  1. remember
  2. resentment
  3. thankworthy
  4. touch
  5. unkind
  6. bind
  7. expressive
  8. fawn
  9. ingratiate
  10. obligation
  11. oblige
  12. penetrate

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  1. -tude
  1. virtues

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