Etymology

ingrateful

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Today it means: ungrateful; not grateful Full definition →

Latin ingrātus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromingrātus“disagreeable”
  2. English todayingrateful

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

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