Ingrateful

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    ungrateful; not grateful obsolete

    "Ingrateful Eve"

  2. 2
    unpleasing to the sense; distasteful obsolete

    "Therefore what he gives / (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part / Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found / No ingrateful food"

Example

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"[…] under change of times, / And condemnation of the ingrateful multitude."

Etymology

From ingrate (“unfriendly”) + -ful, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”).

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