Meanings
plural ingratitudes
- uncountableusuallyA lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
Blondie: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.
1966, Age & Scarpelli, Sergio Leone, and Luciano Vincenzoni (writers), Sergio Leone (director), Clint Eastwood (actor), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (movie), Produzioni Europee Associati1 more example
“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.[…]”
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020Antonyms: gratitude
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
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Origin
- Late Latiningrātitūdō
- Old Frenchingratitude
- Englishingratitude
From in- + gratitude, from Old French ingratitude, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. By surface analysis, in- + Latin grat(us) + -itude.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian неблагодарност
- неблагодарност (neblagodarnost)thanklessness
Catalan ingratitud
- ingratitudthanklessness
Czech nevděk, nevděčnost
- nevděkthanklessness
- nevděčnostthanklessness
Dutch ondankbaarheid
- ondankbaarheidthanklessness
Finnish epäkiitollisuus
- epäkiitollisuusthanklessness
French ingratitude
- ingratitudethanklessness
German Undank, Undankbarkeit
- Undankthanklessness
- Undankbarkeitthanklessness
- fehlende Dankbarkeitthanklessness
Greek αγνωμοσύνη, αχαριστία
- αγνωμοσύνη (agnomosýni)thanklessness
- αχαριστία (acharistía)thanklessness
Hindi कृतघ्नता, अकृतज्ञता
- कृतघ्नता (kŕtaghnatā)thanklessness
- अकृतज्ञता (akŕtajñatā)thanklessness
Hungarian hálátlanság
- hálátlanságthanklessness
Latvian nepateicība, nepateicīgums
- nepateicībathanklessness
- nepateicīgumsthanklessness
Polish niewdzięczność
- niewdzięcznośćthanklessness
Portuguese ingratidão
- ingratidãothanklessness
Russian неблагода́рность
- неблагода́рность (neblagodárnostʹ)thanklessness
Scottish Gaelic mì-thaing
- mì-thaingthanklessness
Spanish ingratitud
- ingratitudthanklessness
Swedish otacksamhet
- otacksamhetthanklessness
Tagalog kabusungan, pasiwalanloob
- kabusunganthanklessness
- pasiwalanloobthanklessness
- kaburisingkawanthanklessness
Ukrainian невдя́чність
- невдя́чність (nevdjáčnistʹ)thanklessness
Cite this entry
ingratitude. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingratitude
“ingratitude.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingratitude. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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