Definition of "grateful"
grateful
adjective
comparative gratefuller or more grateful, superlative gratefullest or most grateful
Quotations
Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork.
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
(obsolete or archaic) Pleasing, welcome.
Quotations
[T]he aſſwagement of his [a wise man's] diſcontent conſiſts in two things, formerly preſcribed as remedies againſt corporeall pain; viz. Diverſion of his thoughts from his loſſe, or the cause of it; and an application of them to thoſe things, which he knowes to be gratefull and pleaſant to his mind.
1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[The Doctrine of Epicurus.] Chapter XXIII.. Of Fortitude, against Discontent of Mind.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], 5th part (Containing the Epicurean Sect), 3rd part of philosophy (Ethick, or Morals), page 261
The system of four-beat alliterative Anglo-Saxon poetry permitted such a range of unaccented syllables between stresses that an exact reproduction of this quality seemed undesirable. The translator, has, therefore, permitted himself no more than two unaccented syllables between stresses [...] The resultant effect is a freely equivalenced anapestic measure, perhaps more grateful to modern ears than the less normalized beat of the original.
1929, “Introduction”, in Theodore Howard Banks, Jr., transl., Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., Inc., pages 7–8