Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ungrateful person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unthankful; ungrateful.
- noun An ungrateful person; one who rewards favors with enmity or treachery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Poetic Ingrateful.
- noun An ungrateful person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Ungrateful . - adjective obsolete
Unpleasant ,unfriendly - noun An
ungrateful person .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who shows no gratitude
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Maybe the reason she sounds like such an ingrate is because she didn’t have to work that hard to get the part of Bella.
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"If you mean I am an ingrate, that is an unpleasant word, Aunt Mary."
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Now, pure, innocent, SK, who would never be described as a ingrate (نذاة) or a liar, has made it her duty to escalate the issue.
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
Ricky Gervais: Golden Globes Host 'Doesn't Care' If Anyone Was Offended By Jokes
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
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Which sort of sounds to me like a cross between "ingrate" and "getta loada this".
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When the "ingrate" is turned out of Heaven they do not send him to Hell, they send him to Earth and give him imagination and a heart.
brtom commented on the word ingrate
... whose fault?
Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee
All he could have ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006