ungrateful

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ungrateful

  • /ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/

adjective more ungrateful · most ungrateful

  1. Not grateful; not expressing gratitude. Near-synonyms: unappreciative, unthankful

    Similar: unappreciative, unthankful · Opposite: grateful

  2. Disagreeable, repellent, unpleasant. If any care for what is here ⁠Survive in spirits render’d free, ⁠Then are these songs I sing of thee Not all ungrateful to thine ear.

Similar: ingrate

noun ungratefuls

  1. A person who fails to show gratitude; an ingrate.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: unthankful, thankless, unappreciative, unpleasant, ingrate, crappy, dirty, filthy, grateful, stinking, smelly, stinky, ingrat, ingrateful, grateless, unthankable

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Similar: ingrate

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adj not grateful

Españoldesagradecido, ingrato, malagradecido
한국어배은망덕 baeeunmangdeok
中文忘恩負義 /忘恩负义 wàng'ēnfùyì
हिन्दीअकृतज्ञ akŕtajña, कृतघ्न kŕtaghna
Portuguêsingrato, mal-agradecido
Françaisingrat
Deutschundankbar
Italianoingrato, irriconoscente
Ελληνικάαχάριστος acháristos, αγνώμων agnómon
Русскийнеблагода́рный neblagodárnyj
עבריתכְּפוּי טוֹבָה kfuy tová

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@misc{ungrateful_2026,
  title = {ungrateful},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ungrateful},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}