ingrateful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ingrate (“unfriendly”) + -ful, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”).
Adjective
[edit]ingrateful (comparative more ingrateful, superlative most ingrateful)
- 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.
- 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