Usually means: With appreciation and thankful acknowledgment.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word gratefully:

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  1. gratefully: Merriam-Webster
  2. gratefully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gratefully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gratefully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gratefully, gratefully: Wordnik
  6. gratefully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gratefully: Wiktionary
  8. gratefully: Dictionary.com
  9. gratefully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. gratefully: Rhymezone
  11. gratefully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. gratefully: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gratefully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. gratefully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gratefully)

▸ adverb:  In a grateful manner.

Similar:
appreciatively, thankfully, thankably, gladfully, obligedly, appreciatingly, thanklessly, ingratefully, ungratefully, gratifiedly, more...

Opposite:
ungratefully, thanklessly

Types:
appreciatively, thankfully, pleased, more...

Phrases:
said gratefully, says gratefully, say gratefully, more...

Colors:
    emerald,     teal,     sage,     olive,     forest green, more...



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Similar:
appreciatively, thankfully, thankably, gladfully, obligedly, appreciatingly, thanklessly, ingratefully, ungratefully, gratifiedly, more...

Opposite:
ungratefully, thanklessly

Types:
appreciatively, thankfully, pleased, more...

Phrases:
said gratefully, says gratefully, say gratefully, more...

Colors:
    emerald,     teal,     sage,     olive,     forest green, more...



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