gratitude

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin gratitudo (“thankfulness”), from Latin gratus (“thankful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɹætɪtud/, X-SAMPA: /"gr\{tItud/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

gratitude (uncountable)

1. The state of being grateful.

Synonyms

• appreciation
• thankfulness
• gratefulness

Antonyms

• ingratitude

Related terms

• grace
• grateful
• gratification
• gratify

Translations

state of being grateful

• Albanian: mirënjohje (sq) f
• Arabic: شكر (ar) (shukr) m
• Catalan: gratitud (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 感恩 (cmn) (gǎn'ēn), 謝意 (cmn), 谢意 (cmn) (xièyì)

• Czech: vděčnost (cs) f, vděk (cs) m
• Dutch: dankbaarheid (nl)
• Esperanto: dankemo (eo)
• Faroese: takksemi (fo)
• Finnish: kiitollisuus (fi)
• French: gratitude (fr) f
• Galician: gratitude (gl) f
• German: Dankbarkeit (de) f
• Greek: ευγνωμοσύνη (el) (evgnomosýni) f
• Hindi: आभार (hi) (ābhār) m, कृतज्ञता (hi) (kŕtagyatā) f

• Italian: gratitudine (it) f
• Japanese: 感謝 (ja) (かんしゃ, kansha)
• Occitan: gratitud (oc)
• Persian: تشکر (fa) (tašákor)
• Polish: wdzięczność (pl)
• Portuguese: gratidão (pt) f
• Romanian: gratitudine (ro) f
• Russian: благодарность (ru) (blagodárnost') f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: благодарност (sh) f, захвалност (sh) f

  Roman: blagodarnost (sh) f, zahvalnost (sh) f

• Spanish: gratitud (es) f
• Swedish: tacksamhet (sv)
• Telugu: కృతజ్ఞత (te)
• Turkish: şükür (tr)

External links

• gratitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• gratitude in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• gratitude at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Etymology

Derived from ingratitude, from Late Latin ingratitudo.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡʁa.ti.tyd/, X-SAMPA: /gRa.ti.tyd@/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophone: gratitudes
• Hyphenation: gra‧ti‧tude

Noun

gratitude f (plural gratitudes)

1. gratitude.

Synonyms

• reconnaissance

Antonyms

• ingratitude