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"Grateful" versus "Thankful"



 
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"Grateful" versus "Thankful" #1 (permalink) Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:38 am   "Grateful" versus "Thankful"
 

Alan wrote:
Grateful means that you appreciate what someone has done for you and you want to express your thanks. Thankful means that you are relieved/pleased that what you hoped for has actually happened.

In one sentence you could say: She was grateful to her teachers and also thankful that she had passed her exams.


Thank you for the explanation, Alan! Very Happy

So, could I say that a person is thankful as a result of something? Or in th end?

Could I request for a few more examples?

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Thankful/grateful #2 (permalink) Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:14 pm   Thankful/grateful
 

Hi Tom,

Thankful has the suggestion that you are glad that something has happened or indeed has not happened - in other words things have worked out as you had hoped.

Probably one way of understanding thankful is in the word Thanksgiving, which is a word you should ask Amy about. People often say: Thank God! when they express relief say when there has been a terrible accident and it appears no-one has been killed. One of the repeated refrains after the Christian priest has spoken about the blessings in life, is: Thanks be to God. All this of course is a far cry from: thank you/very much. The idea of being grateful is expressing thanks on as it were a humbler more human level.

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