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gratefully

Syllables: grate·ful·ly/ˈɡɹeɪtfəli/

gratefully adverb: in a grateful manner.

Adverb

gratefully (comparative more gratefully, superlative most gratefully)

  1. In a grateful manner.
    • A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
      ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
    • The patients were all treated at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Sandy Bay, Hong Kong, and the work of all colleagues, nursing staff and collaborators in this study is gratefully acknowledged.1983, John Patrick O'Brien, “Clinical Techniques of Halo Pelvic Fixation”, in External Skeletal Fixation, Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 599, column 2

gratefully meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

gratefully in Bengali

কৃতজ্ঞতার সাথে, কৃতজ্ঞচিত্তে

gratefully in Malayalam

കൃതജ്ഞതാപൂർവ്വം, നന്ദിയോടെ, ചാരിതാർത്ഥ്യത്തോടെ

Examples of gratefully in a sentence

  • At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.
  • Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.
  • Sharon gratefully assumed I'd hurricaned my last kitchen with my flour-tossing talents.

All 18 example sentences with gratefully

Forms of gratefully

comparativemore gratefully
superlativemost gratefully

Origin of gratefully

From grateful + -ly.

Words formed from gratefully

Questions about gratefully

What does gratefully mean?
Gratefully means in a grateful manner.
What is gratefully in Bengali?
Gratefully in Bengali is কৃতজ্ঞতার সাথে, কৃতজ্ঞচিত্তে. See Gratefully meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gratefully?
Gratefully is an adverb.
How do you pronounce gratefully?
Gratefully is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪtfəli/.

Words near gratefully in the dictionary

  1. grated
  2. grateful
  3. gratefull
  4. gratefuller
  5. gratefullest
  6. gratefully
  7. gratefulness
  8. gratefulnesses
  9. grateless
  10. Grateley
  11. grater

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gratefully (page history and authors); gratefully (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gratefully (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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