VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS

III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

2. Retrospective sympathetic affections

Gratitude.

[Antonyms: ingratitude.]

[Nouns] gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation.

acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will.

thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum (worship) [more]; grace, grace before meat, grace after meat; thank offering.

requital.

[Verbs] be grateful; thank; give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks; acknowledge, requite.

feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation; savoir gr�; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with gratitude; thank one's stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees.

[Adjectives] grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation.

[Interjections] thanks! many thanks! gramercy! much obliged! thank you! thank Heaven! Heaven be praised!