ingrateful

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adjective

ungrateful; not grateful

OriginLatin ingrātus →
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Meanings

adjectiveingrateful (comparative more ingrateful, superlative most ingrateful)

comparative more ingrateful · superlative most ingrateful

  1. obsoleteungrateful; not grateful

    Ingrateful Eve

    1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
    1 more example

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

    1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
  2. obsoleteunpleasing to the sense; distasteful

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

    1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

Origin

  1. Latiningrātus“disagreeable”
  2. Englishingrateful

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

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APA

ingrateful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingrateful

MLA

“ingrateful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingrateful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ingrateful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingrateful.

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