| 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; |
| 2. | Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; |
| Adj. | 1. | grateful - feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile" Synonyms: thankful Antonyms: thankless, ungrateful, unthankful - not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare |
| 2. | grateful - affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire" |