Difference between Grateful and Appreciative

GRATEFUL vs APPRECIATIVE: ADJECTIVE

Feeling or showing gratitude
Appreciative of benefits received; thankful.
Expressing gratitude.
Affording pleasure or comfort; agreeable.
Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits.
Affording comfort or pleasure
Showing appreciation, being thankful.
Recognizing the importance of a source of pleasure.
Pleasing, welcome.
Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious.

Pleasing to the mind or the senses; agreeable; gratifying; affording pleasure.
Betokening or expressing gratitude; denoting thankfulness.
Feeling kindly or tenderly on account of a favor or favors bestowed; disposed to acknowledge and repay benefits.
Synonyms Grateful, Thankful, beholden. Grateful is preferred when we speak of the general character of a person's mind: as, a man of a grateful disposition; an ungrateful wretch. Grateful often expresses the feeling, and the readiness to manifest the feeling by acts, even a long time after the rendering of the favor; thankful refers rather to the immediate acknowledgment of the favor by words. The same distinction is found in the negative forms, ungrateful, unthankful, thankless. Thankful is often loosely used for relieved or glad, where the thanks, if rendered, would be given to a merciful or helping Providence: as, I am thankful for my escape.

Capable of appreciating; manifesting due appreciation: as, an appreciative audience.

Appreciated, Indebted, Gratifying, Excited, Happy, Appreciate, Pleased, Fortunate, Thanked, Delighted, Gratified, Pleasant, Glad, Appreciative, Thankful

Indebted, Appreciation, Satisfied, Welcome, Gratitude, Applaud, Happy, Thanking, Pleased, Appreciates, Appreciate, Gratified, Discriminating, Thankful, Grateful

Welcome, Appreciated, Indebted, Gratifying, Excited, Happy, Appreciate, Pleased, Fortunate, Delighted, Gratified, Pleasant, Glad, Appreciative, Thankful

Admired, Indebted, Appreciation, Satisfied, Welcome, Gratitude, Applaud, Happy, Thanking, Pleased, Appreciate, Gratified, Discriminating, Thankful, Grateful

We are all very grateful for the experience.
We are ever so grateful for your review!
So grateful for all you are and do!
What three things are you most grateful for?
Mary being very grateful, grateful for what God has done for her individually and what God has done for her people, her ancestors.
Can we all just be grateful for Garry and Helk and all the devs, and just be grateful for the game?
For every grateful heart, these appreciation messages to God would do for any occasion you feel grateful for.
Perhaps giving your kids a childhood they feel grateful about now will help them reflect more on reasons to be grateful as an adult.
With grateful music of the Jingle bells, let me extend my grateful feelings for your work here.
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Then he regarded her in pure appreciative amazement.
The audience is also always lively and appreciative.
She was patient and appreciative of my business!
They are critically appreciative of imagery and ofsymbolism.
We are so appreciative of organizations like IMF.
Appreciative Inquiry is a perspective on the world that invites us to see ourselves and the world through an appreciative or valuing eye.
Productive and appreciative employees are just that: productive and appreciative, which of course is good for business.
Much of the research on appreciative inquiry focuses on events in which leaders have used appreciative inquiry.
Appreciative democracy: the feasibility of using appreciative inquiry at the local government level by public administrators to increase citizen participation.
Messenger appreciative is appreciative for his own good.