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THANKFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or showing gratitude
Example:
a thankful smile
Synonyms:
grateful; thankful
Classified under:
Similar:
appreciative (feeling or expressive of gratitude)
glad (feeling happy appreciation)
Derivation:
thankfulness (warm friendly feelings of gratitude)
Context examples:
She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I am thankful, madam, that you have come to your senses even at this last moment! There is not an instant to lose.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, “Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
And so, in humble and thankful mood, I close this account.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She stopped for a moment, and then added, with great firmness, I have no sister, you know—and though Henry—though my brothers are very affectionate, and Henry is a great deal here, which I am most thankful for, it is impossible for me not to be often solitary.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She wondered, and was thankful also, that her parents did not seem to see what she saw, and during the quiet weeks when the shadows grew so plain to her, she said nothing of it to those at home, believing that it would tell itself when Beth came back no better.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mother, said I, take the whole and let's be going, for I was sure the bolted door must have seemed suspicious and would bring the whole hornet's nest about our ears, though how thankful I was that I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met that terrible blind man.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Every consideration of the subject, in short, makes me thankful that my happiness is not more deeply involved.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We shall have him very thankful to anybody that will bring him his wife.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“I have not worn anybody's life away,” said Peggotty, “I am thankful to think! No, Mr. Murdstone, I have not worrited and frightened any sweet creetur to an early grave!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
