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# thankful

«thankful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Feeling glad and grateful that something good happened or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (thankful, more thankful, most thankful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Feeling glad and grateful that something good happened or something bad did not happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#m1)

2) Feeling thanks towards someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it shows relief and gratitude: «thankful that nobody was hurt». In many families and schools, at harvest festivals or Thanksgiving (USA, Canada), people say what they are thankful for. Phrases: «thankful for», «thankful that», «be thankful», «small mercies».

### examples

- I'm thankful for my friends and family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#x1)
- We were thankful that nobody was hurt in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#x2)
- Be thankful for what you have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#x3)
- She was thankful for the warm soup after the cold walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#x4)
- At Thanksgiving we each say one thing we're thankful for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#x5)
- The farmer was thankful for the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/#x6)

### note

Followed by «for» + noun or «that» + sentence. Adverb: «thankfully» (also used to mean «luckily»: «Thankfully, it stopped raining»). «Thankful» and «grateful» are close; «grateful» is used more for thanks to a person.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thankful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thankful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.