thankful

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You of course, being of noble birth, have nothing to be thankful for and nothing to contribute.

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A female given name.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A female given name.

adjective

Showing appreciation or gratitude.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thankful.

noun

A female given name.

adjective

Showing appreciation or gratitude.

Example sentences

You of course, being of noble birth, have nothing to be thankful for and nothing to contribute.

Take your experiences in hand and be thankful you made it out of that shithole alive.

Let's just be thankful that we haven't had a major air-based catastrophe due to an outage or hacking!

I'm thankful that I have the privilege of not being told that my gender was a handicap for my field (statistics).

But, make no mistake, you are a bitter man and if Java contributed to that then I'm thankful for its existence.

If you can provide even more evidence pointing consistently the opposite direction, I'd not only be convinced, but I'd be thankful.

Write down 5 things you're thankful for every day 5.

Working in an existing codebase, with other devs of whom you can ask questions, is a luxury that I was very thankful for.

Because the Iraq that I saw made me thankful as shit that I basically won the lottery of living in the developed world.

The Greeks who are so fond of the Euro should be endlessly thankful to the German political class (not the people - they never supported this bail-out).

If anyone is able to find that interview, I'd be extremely thankful.

Germany has to be thankful to the Allies for imposing only very light sanctions after WW2; but debt forgiveness didn't play much of a role in Germany's recovery.