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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thankful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ At first I was very thankful to be alive.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours
▪ From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time.
▪ She wondered wryly whether to be thankful for small mercies, or to feel insulted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I am always thankful for their enthusiasm and commitment.
▪ She was thankful that Louise had insisted she travel first class.
▪ Take what they give you, and be thankful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All were thankful that it was no worse.
▪ Giles walked slowly and quietly, thankful to be rescued.
▪ I get up every day thankful that I have a job and kids and a nice house.
▪ Later on she had good reason to be thankful that she was.
▪ Portadown won the local derby against Armagh 20-6 yesterday and will be thankful for another home draw.
▪ They had been conquered by Menelik but among them the Abyssinian imprint was as yet barely discernible, for which I was thankful.
▪ Tobie, who regarded the Patriarch with undiluted horror, felt thankful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thankful

Thankful \Thank"ful\, a. [AS. [thorn]ancfull.]

  1. 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.
    --Herbert.

  2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.

    Be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
    --Ps. c. 4. [1913 Webster] -- Thank"ful*ly, adv. -- Thank"ful*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thankful

Old English þancful "satisfied, grateful," also "thoughtful, ingenious, clever;" see thank + -ful. Related: Thankfully; thankfulness. Thankfully in the sense "thankful to say" is attested by 1966, but deplored by purists (compare hopefully).

Wiktionary
thankful

a. 1 Showing appreciation or gratitude. 2 (context obsolete English) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.

WordNet
thankful

adj. feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile" [syn: grateful] [ant: ungrateful]

Wikipedia
Thankful (Kelly Clarkson album)

Thankful is the debut album by American pop singer Kelly Clarkson, released in the United States by RCA Records on April 15, 2003 (see 2003 in music). " Miss Independent" was its first single, followed by " Low" and " The Trouble with Love Is". Initially, the album had been scheduled to be released in November 2002, however, Clarkson's demanding schedule and difficulty finding tracks that suited her taste and image forced the album to be delayed several times. By the time the album was released, over six months had elapsed since "A Moment Like This" had reached number one.

The album debuted at number one on the American Billboard 200 selling 297,000 copies. "Miss Independent" went on to be a Top 10 hit in the US.Thankful had sold 2,745,000 copies in the U.S. In Canada Thankful was certified platinum for 100,000 copies shipped.

Thankful (Aaron Pritchett album)

Thankful is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music singer Aaron Pritchett. It was released on September 9, 2008 by 604 Records. The album's first three singles charted on the Canadian Hot 100.

Thankful (Natalie Cole album)

Thankful is a 1977 album by American singer Natalie Cole. Released on November 16, 1977 by Capitol Records, The album single, " Our Love", peaked at #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and topped the R&B Charts in 1978.

Thankful

Thankful may refer to:

  • Gratitude (or thankfulness), a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive
  • Thankful (Aaron Pritchett album), 2008
  • Thankful (Caedmon's Call album), 2007
  • Thankful (Flavour N'abania album), 2014
  • Thankful (Kelly Clarkson album), 2003
  • Thankful (Mary Mary album), 2000
  • Thankful (Natalie Cole album), 1977
  • Thankful, an album by Jennifer Hanson
Thankful (Flavour N'abania album)

Thankful is the fourth studio album by Nigerian singer Flavour N'abania. It was released on 14 November 2014 by 2nite Entertainment.

Usage examples of "thankful".

Outside Barcelona the road south became the Autopista Seven, for which I was thankful, but we were still about seven hundred miles from Marbella.

Lincoln is thankful Chase is at Treasury and not Cameron, who is utterly ignorant, selfish, and openly discourteous to the President, and a notorious crook.

March perfervidly assured her that there was all the difference in the world, she submitted and said she supposed she ought to be thankful that they, had hit upon the right one.

Buckley child, her pronator teres was definitely out of commission, and right thankful she was, too, that it had lost its agonizing sensitivity.

Be thankful for the clemency of Master Prout, a worthy man, and a considerate, whose advice is like silver nails driven in by the master of assemblies.

But even at those hours of the day the stifling heat was almost unbearable and she was thankful to return to the dim, shuttered rooms where the swinging punkahs and the tinkling splash of the fountains at least gave an illusion of coolness.

Thankful for a distraction to take her mind off what was probably just one of those unanswerable little quandaries that life sometimes handed out, she tossed it on the table and went to answer the door.

He felt thankful at least that his plans called for no reascent of the hill later.

Remember and be thankful for all the years the Sprenkles and the Ledfields had together.

I was thankful to see that Stute treated him with no more ceremony than he had shewn to other informants.

Sally had upstairs duties to perform, for which Ruth was thankful, as she kept receiving rather angry glances for her unpunctuality as long as Sally remained downstairs.

He suddenly realized that a waterspout would have had the same effect and was thankful for his earlier silence.

The low animalistic sounds coming from her throat sounded alien to her, but she was thankful for it when the alpha slowly backed down before her.

Delaney was thankful for his flannel muffler, vested suit, and balbriggan underwear.

Having decided that it would be both unsafe and unkind to divulge to her the story of Miles Calverleigh and Celia Morval, Abby was thankful to be spared searching enquiries into the circumstances under which Miles Calverleigh had contrived to become intimately acquainted with a girl who had been married within two months of her come-out, and had lived thereafter in a Bedfordshire manor.