ingrateful

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English

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Etymology

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From ingrate (unfriendly) +‎ -ful, from Latin ingrātus (disagreeable), from in- (not) +‎ grātus (pleasing).

Adjective

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ingrateful (comparative more ingrateful, superlative most ingrateful)

  1. ungrateful; not grateful
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
      Ingrateful Eve
    • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
      [] under change of times, / And condemnation of the ingrateful multitude.
  2. unpleasing to the sense; distasteful
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
      Therefore what he gives / (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part / Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found / No ingrateful food

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