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ingrate

/ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/

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First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English ingrat, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Cognate with French ingrat.

adjective more ingrate · most ingrate

obsolete, poetic Ungrateful. Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.
obsolete Unfriendly; unpleasant.

noun ingrates

An ungrateful or unpleasant person. But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his

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noun an ungrateful person

Español	ingrato, ingrata
Русский	неблагодарный neblagodarnyj

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@misc{ingrate_2026,
  title = {ingrate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ingrate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}