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/θˈæŋkfəl/ Listen

adjective

Thankful adj.

Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. (R.) "Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows."

Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. "Be thankful unto him, and bless his name."

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Etymology of 'Thankful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thankful" Quotes from Famous Books

... out ahead, for he was a careful seaman, as both the captain and mate could vouch for, and possessed the keenest eyesight of any man in the ship—a natural gift for which he was very thankful in his way, and of which it must be said he was ...

— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson

... names in preference to Ina and Bessie and Flossy and such pretty-pretty names, with no meaning and no character to them. Take my own name, Ruth. If I wanted to be noble or heroic I could be; my name would not be an anomalous nightmare to attract attention to the incongruity. We cannot be too thankful to our mothers who named us Mary and Dorothy and Constance. What an inspiration to be "faithful over a few things" such a name ...

— The Love Affairs of an Old Maid • Lilian Bell

... will be enabled to give you some account of the sermons that I hear, as I think it would be greatly to my own interest, for if I pry into that part of information, there is no danger but that I will have success in whatever situation I am placed in life. I may be thankful that I have a room to read my Bible in on Sabbath days. I have none to speak to me or give me annoyance of any sort whatever. I hope the next letter I write you, that it will be in a more correct sense. I hope you will write me by Johnny, when he is coming back to town, ...

— Gathering Jewels - The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. • James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles

... are thankful, in the first place, to our God, (unserem alten Gott.) He will not desert us, since we stand for a holy cause. Many of our comrades have already fallen in battle. They died as heroes for the Fatherland. We will think of them with honor here, and shout to the honor ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various

... how thankful I am," said Zeppa, "that this trader happened to touch at the island. As I grew stronger my anxiety to return home became more and more intense; and to say truth, I had begun to fear that Captain ...

— The Madman and the Pirate • R.M. Ballantyne

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