ingrate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/

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Adjective

ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)

1. (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.
   • 1536 June 16 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. Master Latimer’s Discourse on the Same Day in the Afternoon [Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, before the Parliament Began, the Sixth Day of June, the Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of the Late King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. […], volume I, London: […] J. Scott, […], published 1758, →OCLC, page 24:

     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.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The causes of that which is pleasing , or ingrate to the hearing , may receive light by that which is pleasing or ingrate to the sight

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 61:

     Who, for ſo many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and falſe, / And ſo of all true good himſelf deſpoil'd, […]

   • c. 1820, John Keats, Sonnet to Chatterton; published 1901 in The Poetical Works of John Keats in "The World's Classics", reprinted (New edition) 1927, London: Oxford University Press, p. 261

     thou art among the stars / of highest Heaven: to the rolling spheres / Thou sweetly singest: naught thy hymning mars, / Above the ingrate world and human fears.

2. (obsolete) Unfriendly; unpleasant. [18th c.]

Noun

ingrate (plural ingrates)

1. An ungrateful person.
   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     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 household gods.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham

   • 1893, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, Utopia, Limited;  […]:

     Out of my sight, ingrate!

   • 2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     The consensus—certainly among the great and the good of Cambridge, Massachusetts—was that he was an ultranationalist, a reactionary, and, above all, an ingrate.

Translations

an ungrateful person

• Bulgarian: неблагодарник (bg) m (neblagodarnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白眼狼 (zh) (báiyǎnláng) (colloquial, chiefly Mainland China)

• Czech: nevděčník m
• Finnish: kiittämätön (fi)
• Polish: niewdzięcznik (pl) m, niewdzięcznica (pl) f
• Russian: неблагодарный (ru) (neblagodarnyj)
• Spanish: ingrato (es) m, ingrata (es) f

Anagrams

• gratiné, angrite, tangier, tearing, Tangier, Geraint, Granite, granite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ɡʁat/

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• Homophone: ingrates

Adjective

ingrate

1. feminine singular of ingrat

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈɡra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: in‧grà‧te

Adjective

ingrate

1. feminine plural of ingrato

Noun

ingrate f pl

1. plural of ingrata

Anagrams

• Argenti, Tangeri, argenti, girante, granite, integra, negarit, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, tingerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈɡraː.te/, [ɪŋˈɡräːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈɡra.te/, [iŋˈɡräːt̪e]

Adjective

ingrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ingrātus

References

• “ingrate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ingrate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.