Emotions
Synonyms for grateful
The synonym for grateful recorded in this bank is thankful, in the sense "feeling or showing gratitude". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for grateful
- thankfuladjective, in the sense "feeling or showing gratitude"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and grateful carries one sense so far.
feeling or showing gratitude
A grateful heart.
The true synonym
thankful
Same sentence, swapped: A thankful heart.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot grateful is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- ungrateful
- pleasant
- fair
Where grateful turns up in the game
grateful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where grateful is the trap
- jealousadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is envious, in the sense "feeling resentful envy of someone's achievements or advantages", so grateful is there to be ruled out.
- thanklessadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ungrateful, in the sense "not feeling or showing gratitude", so grateful is there to be ruled out.
Play grateful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grateful reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other emotions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. grateful carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.