gratitude

English

Etymology

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From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin grātitūdō (“thankfulness”), from Latin grātus (“thankful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹætɪt(j)ud/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

gratitude (countable and uncountable, plural gratitudes)

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: شُكْر m (šukr)
• Bulgarian: благодарност (bg) f (blagodarnost), признателност (bg) f (priznatelnost)
• Burmese: ကျေးဇူး (my) (kye:ju:)
• Catalan: gratitud (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: vděčnost f, vděk (cs) m
• Dutch: dankbaarheid (nl)
• Esperanto: dankemo
• Faroese: takksemi
• Finnish: kiitollisuus (fi)
• French: gratitude (fr) f
• Galician: gratitude (gl) f
• Georgian: მადლიერება (madliereba)
• German: Dankbarkeit (de) f
• Greek: ευγνωμοσύνη (el) f (evgnomosýni)

  Ancient: εὐχαριστία f (eukharistía)

• Hebrew: תּוֹדָה (he) f (todá), הוֹדָיָה f (hodayá)
• Hindi: आभार (hi) m (ābhār), कृतज्ञता (hi) f (kŕtajñatā)
• Hungarian: hála (hu)
• Ido: gratitudo (io)
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• Italian: gratitudine (it) f
• Japanese: 感謝 (ja) (かんしゃ, kansha)
• Latin: grātitūdō f
• Latvian: pateicība f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takknemlighet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: takksemd f, takknemlegheit f

• Occitan: gratitud (oc)
• Persian: تشکر (fa) (tašakor), امتنان (fa) (emtenân), شنوهر (šenuhr)
• Polish: wdzięczność (pl)
• Portuguese: gratidão (pt) f
• Romanian: gratitudine (ro) f
• Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: благодарност f, захвалност f

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

• Spanish: gratitud (es) f
• Swahili: ushukuru
• Swedish: tacksamhet (sv)
• Telugu: కృతజ్ఞత (te) (kr̥tajñata)
• Turkish: şükür (tr)
• Yakut: махтал (maqtal)

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• Danish: ^{(please verify)} taknemmelighed (da) c
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Further reading

• “gratitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “gratitude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “gratitude”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Etymology

Derived from ingratitude, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin ingratitudo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.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

Further reading

• “gratitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.