grateful

Etymology

From Latin gratus (“pleasing, agreeable”) + -ful, morphologically grate + -ful.

adj

1. Appreciative; thankful.
   I'm grateful that you helped me out.
   I'm grateful to you for helping me out.
   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. May 5, 2012, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
2. (obsolete or archaic) Pleasing, welcome.
   […] its glands give forth gum arabic; and its flowers an odour of a very grateful fragrance. 1839, Robert Hooper, Klein Grant, Lexicon Medicum: or, Medical Dictionary, 4th edition, page 1177
   Fell I upon my spear, Oh, death was grateful! 1841, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor
   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., →OCLC, pages 7–8