gratitude

gratitude

English

Etymology

From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin grātitūdō (“thankfulness”), from Latin grātus (“thankful”). Displaced native Old English þancung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹætɪt(j)ud/

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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), اِمْتِنَان‎ m (imtinān), تَشَكُّر‎ m (tašakkur) Armenian: երախտագիտություն (hy) (eraxtagitutʿyun) Azerbaijani: minnətdarlıq, təşəkkür (az), minnət Belarusian: падзя́ка f (padzjáka), удзя́чнасць f (udzjáčnascʹ) Bengali: শোকর (bn) (śokôrô) Bulgarian: благода́рност (bg) f (blagodárnost), призна́тельност f (priznátelʹnost) Burmese: ကျေးဇူး (my) (kye:ju:), ကတညုတ (my) (ka.ta.nyu.ta.) Catalan: gratitud (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 感恩 (zh) (gǎn'ēn), 謝意／谢意 (zh) (xièyì) Czech: vděčnost (cs) f, vděk (cs) m Danish: taknemmelighed (da) c Dutch: dankbaarheid (nl) f Esperanto: dankemo Estonian: tänulikkus 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 (kŕtagyatā), शुक्र (hi) m (śukr) Hungarian: hála (hu) Icelandic: þakklæti (is) n Ido: gratitudo (io) Irish: buíochas m Italian: gratitudine (it) f, riconoscenza (it) f Japanese: 感謝 (ja) (かんしゃ, kansha) Jingpho: chyeju Kashubian: wdzãcznosc f Kazakh: алғыс (kk) (alğys), рақмет (raqmet), ризалық (rizalyq), ризашылық (rizaşylyq) Khmer: កតញ្ញុតា (km) (kaʼtaññutaa) Korean: 감사(感謝) (ko) (gamsa) Kyrgyz: алкыш (ky) (alkış), ыракмат (ky) (ırakmat) Latin: grātitūdō f Latvian: pateicība f Lithuanian: dėkingumas m Macedonian: благодарност f (blagodarnost) Malay: bersyukur, syukur Malayalam: കൃതജ്ഞത (ml) (kr̥tajñata), നന്ദി (ml) (nandi) Maori: ngākau reka Mongolian: Cyrillic: талархал (mn) (talarxal) Norwegian: Bokmål: takknemlighet (no) m or f Nynorsk: takksemd f, takknemlegheit f Occitan: gratitud (oc) Old English: þancung f Persian: تشکر‎ (fa) (tašakor), امتنان‎ (fa) (emtenân), شنوهر‎ (šenuhr), سپاسگزاری‎ (fa) (sepâsgozâri), قدردانی‎ (fa) (qadrdâni) Polish: wdzięczność (pl) Portuguese: gratidão (pt) f Romanian: gratitudine (ro) f, recunoștință (ro) f Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ), призна́тельность (ru) f (priznátelʹnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: благодарност f, захвалност f Roman: blagodarnost (sh) f, zahvalnost (sh) f Shan: ၵျေးၸူး (shn) (kjée tsúu), ၵေးၸူး (shn) (kée tsúu) Slovak: vďačnosť f Slovene: hvaležnost f Spanish: gratitud (es) f Swahili: ushukuru Swedish: tacksamhet (sv) c Tajik: ташаккур (tg) (tašakkur), миннатдорӣ (minnatdorī), сипосгузорӣ (siposguzorī), имтинон (imtinon) Telugu: కృతజ్ఞత (te) (kr̥tajñata) Thai: กตเวทิตา (th), ความกตัญญู (th) Turkish: şükür (tr), şükran (tr), teşekkür (tr), minnet (tr) Turkmen: minnetdarlyk Ukrainian: вдя́чність (uk) f (vdjáčnistʹ) Urdu: شکر‎ m (śukr), شکرانہ‎ m (śukrāna), تشکر‎ (taśakkur) Uyghur: مىننەتدارلىق‎ (minnetdarliq) Uzbek: tashakkur (uz), minnatdorlik (uz), minnatdorchilik (uz) Vietnamese: lòng biết ơn (vi) Yakut: махтал (maxtal) Yiddish: דאַנקבאַרקייט‎ f (dankbarkeyt)

Further reading

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

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French

Etymology

From Late Latin gratitudo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.ti.tyd/

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

Noun

gratitude f (plural gratitudes)

1. gratitude

   Synonym: reconnaissance

   Antonym: ingratitude

Further reading

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