Ungrateful

  • 91ingrate — [ ɪngreɪt, ɪn greɪt] formal or literary noun an ungrateful person. adjective ungrateful. Origin ME: from L. ingratus, from in not + gratus grateful …

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  • 92ingrate — /ˈɪngreɪt / (say ingrayt) noun 1. an ungrateful person: *Easterners disdain westerners as arrogant, money grubbing invaders and are in turn disparaged as ignorant, lazy ingrates who have damaged the west s once booming economy. –aap news, 2000.… …

  • 93grateful — [adj1] appreciative beholden, gratified, indebted, obliged, pleased, thankful; concept 403 Ant. heedless, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful grateful [adj2] pleasing, nice acceptable, agreeable, comforting, congenial, consoling, delectable,… …

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  • 94thankless — [adj1] unappreciated barren, disagreeable, distasteful, fruitless, futile, miserable, not worth it*, ungrateful, unpleasant, unprofitable, unrecognized, unrequited, unreturned, unrewarding, useless, vain, wretched; concepts 538,548 Ant.… …

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  • 95ingrate — formal or literary ► NOUN ▪ an ungrateful person. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ ungrateful. ORIGIN Latin ingratus, from in not + gratus grateful …

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  • 96ingrate — n. & adj. formal or literary n. an ungrateful person. adj. ungrateful. Etymology: ME f. L ingratus (as IN (1), gratus grateful) …

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  • 97unappreciatively — adverb in an ungrateful manner • Syn: ↑ungratefully • Ant: ↑gratefully (for: ↑ungratefully), ↑appreciatively • Derived from adjective: ↑unappreciati …

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  • 98ungratefully — adverb in an ungrateful manner • Syn: ↑unappreciatively • Ant: ↑gratefully, ↑appreciatively (for: ↑unappreciatively) • Derived from adjective: ↑ …

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  • 99in|grate — «IHN grayt», noun, adjective. –n. an ungrateful person: »This is worse than your treachery and deceit, you base ingrate (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). –adj. Archaic. ungrateful. ╂[< Latin ingrātus < in not + grātus thankful] …

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  • 100un|thank´ful|ness — un|thank|ful «uhn THANGK fuhl», adjective. 1. = ungrateful. (Cf. ↑ungrateful) 2. not appreciated; thankless: »One of the most unthankful offices in the world (Oliver Goldsmith). –un|thank´ful|ly, adverb. –un|thank´ful|ness, noun …

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