ingrate

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8
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10
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7
Pronunciation
/ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/

Definition of ingrate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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.”
    “Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate”
    “But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.”
    “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”
    “Who, for ſo many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and falſe, / And ſo of all true good himſelf deſpoil'd, […]”
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adj

  1. (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.”
    “Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate”
    “But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.”
    “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”
    “Who, for ſo many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and falſe, / And ſo of all true good himſelf deſpoil'd, […]”
  2. (obsolete)Unfriendly; unpleasant.

noun

  1. 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 household gods.”
    “"Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.””
    “Out of my sight, ingrate!”
    “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.”

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Etymology

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.

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