gratitude

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Thankfulness

Nouns — gratitude, gratefulness, thankfulness; indebtedness; acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving; thanks, praise; paean, Te Deum, worship, grace; thank-offering; requital.

Verbs — be grateful, thank; give, render, return, offer, or tender thanks; acknowledge, requite; thank or bless one's [lucky] stars.

Adjectives — grateful, thankful, appreciative, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation.

Interjections — thanks! much obliged! thank you! thank heaven! Heaven be praised! thanks a million! gracias! merci!

Phrases — never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Quotations — A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful (Bible), In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favors (La Rochefoucauld), Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few (Winston Churchill), A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing).

Antonyms, see ingratitude.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. thankfulness, appreciation, gratefulness, acknowledgment, response, sense of obligation, sense of indebtedness, feeling of obligation, responsiveness, thanks, praise, guerdon, requital, recognition, honor, thanksgiving, grace.

Ant. ingratitude, indifference*, thanklessness.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

appreciation, thankfulness, gratefulness, thanks, acknowledgement, recognition, sense of obligation. ''The exchequer of the poor.''—Shakespeare.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A being grateful: appreciation, gratefulness, thankfulness, thanks. See GRATEFUL.