- grateful, gratified
- Grateful is an adjective indicating appreciation of personal kindness: "I am grateful for your thoughtful response to my appeal." Grateful is a synonym of thankful, indebted, and obliged. Gratified is a verb form, the past tense and past participle of gratify, a word meaning "to give pleasure," "to satisfy," "to indulge," "to humor": "He gratified his clothing desires by buying three new suits." "These customers were gratified by a refund of their money."
Dictionary of problem words and expressions. Harry Shaw. 1975.
См. также в других словарях:
gratified — See grateful, gratified … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
grateful — See grateful, gratified … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
grateful — 1 Grateful, thankful both mean feeling or expressing one s gratitude. Grateful is more commonly employed to express a proper sense of favors received from another person or other persons {a grateful child} {a grateful recipient of charity} {the… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
grateful — [adj1] appreciative beholden, gratified, indebted, obliged, pleased, thankful; concept 403 Ant. heedless, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful grateful [adj2] pleasing, nice acceptable, agreeable, comforting, congenial, consoling, delectable,… … New thesaurus
grateful — Synonyms and related words: acceptable, acknowledging, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, appreciative, beholden, blissful, cheerful, cognizant of, comforting, compatible, complaisant, congenial, consoling, cordial, crediting, delectable,… … Moby Thesaurus
thankful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. grateful, appreciative; much obliged. See gratitude. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. obliged, grateful, gratified, contented, satisfied, indebted to, beholden, pleased, kindly disposed, appreciative,… … English dictionary for students
comfortable — Synonyms and related words: abounding in riches, acceptable, accepting, adequate, affluent, agreeable, amiable, at ease, big rich, carefree, charmed, cheerful, comfortably situated, comforter, comforting, comfy, commodious, competent, complacent … Moby Thesaurus
thankful — [adj] appreciative beholden, content, contented, grateful, gratified, indebted, much obliged, obliged, overwhelmed, pleased, relieved, satisfied; concepts 401,403 Ant. critical, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful, unthankful … New thesaurus
gratify — grat|i|fy [ˈgrætıfaı] v past tense and past participle gratified present participle gratifying third person singular gratifies [T] formal [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: gratifier, from Latin gratificare to make yourself pleasing , from… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Malaspina Expedition — The Malaspina Expedition (1789 1794) was a scientific exploration that took place during a five year voyage around the globe, commanded by Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra. Although the expedition receives its name from… … Wikipedia
