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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard

Meaning of "ingrate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INGRATE

From Latin ingrātus (adj), from in-1 + grātusgrateful.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INGRATE

ingrate  [ˈɪnɡreɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INGRATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ingrate can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INGRATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ingrate in the English dictionary

The definition of ingrate in the dictionary is an ungrateful person. Other definition of ingrate is ungrateful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INGRATE


aggrate
əˈɡreɪt
conflagrate
ˈkɒnfləˌɡreɪt
deflagrate
ˈdɛfləˌɡreɪt
denigrate
ˈdɛnɪˌɡreɪt
disintegrate
dɪsˈɪntɪˌɡreɪt
emigrate
ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪt
generate
ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt
grate
ɡreɪt
great
ɡreɪt
immigrate
ˈɪmɪˌɡreɪt
integrate
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪt
migrate
maɪˈɡreɪt
overgreat
ˈəʊvəˌɡreɪt
rate
reɪt
redintegrate
rɛˈdɪntɪˌɡreɪt
regrate
rɪˈɡreɪt
reintegrate
riːˈɪntɪˌɡreɪt
remigrate
ˌriːmaɪˈɡreɪt
separate
ˈsɛpəˌreɪt
transmigrate
ˌtrænzmaɪˈɡreɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INGRATE

ingraft
ingraftation
ingraftment
ingrain
ingrained
ingrainedly
ingrainedness
ingram
ingrateful
ingrately
ingratiate
ingratiating
ingratiatingly
ingratiation
ingratiatory
ingratitude
ingravescence
ingravescent
ingredient

WORDS THAT END LIKE INGRATE

accurate
at any rate
celebrate
chain grate
collaborate
concentrate
corporate
decorate
demonstrate
desperate
elaborate
exchange rate
illustrate
inaccurate
incorporate
karate
moderate
operate
pirate
substrate

Synonyms and antonyms of ingrate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ingrate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INGRATE

Find out the translation of ingrate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ingrate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ingrate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

忘恩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ingrato
570 millions of speakers

English

ingrate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कृतघ्न
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неблагодарный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ingrato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অকৃতজ্ঞ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ingrat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ingrate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Undankbare
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

恩知らず
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

은혜를 모르는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ingrate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vong ân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்றி கெட்ட மனிதன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कृत्य करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nankör
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingrato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ingrate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невдячний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ingrat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αχάριστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ondankbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ingrate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ingrate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ingrate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INGRATE»

The term «ingrate» is normally little used and occupies the 118.553 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INGRATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ingrate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ingrate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ingrate

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4 QUOTES WITH «INGRATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ingrate.
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Saint Bernard
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Louis XIV
Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
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Louis XIV
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
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Ann Voskamp
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INGRATE»

Discover the use of ingrate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ingrate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations
The ingrate is one who repays kindness and generosity with exploitation or betrayal. To make excuses for his ingratitude, the ingrate normally belittles the benefit he has received (as in "The Shansi Merchant") or, by inverted reasoning,  ...
Yau-Woon Ma, Joseph S. M. Lau, 1986
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Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text
READINGS. Reading. 1. The. Ingrate. Paul. Laurence. Dunbar. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was born in the United States, in Dayton, Ohio, the son of former slaves. His father escaped from enslavement in Kentucky and served in the ...
Ruth Spack, 2007
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The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The. Ingrate. I. Mr. Leckler was a man of high principle. Indeed, he himself had admitted it at times to Mrs. Leckler. She was often called into counsel with him. He was one of those large souled creatures with a hunger for unlimited advice, upon ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gene Andrew Jarrett, Thomas Lewis Morgan, 2005
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Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, ...
Perhaps the closest the divine conversation gets to conspicuous doubleness, however, comes in the notorious ambiguity of the word “ingrate” within the Father's first speech: “whose fault? / Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee / All he ...
Judith Anderson, 2009
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Music and the Cognitive Sciences: Proceedings from the ...
POES1ASCELTAN.8 Testo originale: Stelle ingrate rio destino luci amatee dove sete? Dell'arciero vostro lume in qual parte i rai volgete? Numero di rami principali dell'albero = 2 Possibilita di ripresa: si Forma ABA Ripetizioni iniziali: Decide ...
Stephen McAdams, Irène Deliège, 1989
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Dis-integrating Multiculturalism
PROUD. SCUM. –. THE. SPECTRE. OF. THE. INGRATE. The term integration has been turned upside down. Once it was the demand for the white majority to integrate the racial other into 'society' by abolishing formal racism within the state  ...
‎2006
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The London encyclopaedia: or, Universal dictionary of ...
Ingrate is pro- Incra'tiate, v. a. i per, but ingrateful less Ingrat'itude, n.t. * proper than ungrateful ; ungrateful; unthankful; unpleasingtothe sense: ingratiate, to put in favor ; to recommend to kindness. It has with before the person whose favour is  ...
Thomas Curtis, 1829
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London encyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of science, ...
Ingrate is pro- Ingra'tiate, v. a. 4 per, but ingrateful less Incrat'itude, n.!. J proper than ungrateful ; ungrateful; unthankful; unpleasing-to the sense: ingratiate, to put in favor ; to recommend to kindness. It has with before the person whose favour ...
Thomas Tegg, 1829
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Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
That we have been familiar, Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather Than pity note how much. Shakspeare, Coriol. And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts. Shakspeare. No man could be so impiously ingrate. Younger Brother's Apology ...
Samuel Johnson, 1827
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Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern ...
Thus as souls without bodies, confined to the subterranean regions, the ingrate are condemned to a permanent liminality that mirrors the very sexual ecstasy they refused in life.38 In Ovidian terms transformation also substitutes for sex, ...
Bonnie Gordon, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INGRATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ingrate is used in the context of the following news items.
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AQUínceañera: Culturally charged two-day music fest hits McAllen …
... Kids, L@s Skagaler@s, Pinky Swear, Dezorah, Fantastico!, Program, Ingrate, Nostromo, Idle Vision, The Follies, Muk and Hex Girlfriend. «Monitor, Jul 15»
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Is gratitude the new attitude? - Life & Style - NZ Herald News
My "inner voice", to use the phrase popularised by self-help gurus, sounds like a nervy, forgetful ingrate. That can't be me, can it? If in the past ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Man Divorces Wife Over Adultery
She described her husband as an ingrate, adding that she paid his house rent and furnished his apartment. "My husband is ungrateful; I rented ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
4
Westside Story – Tillicum Scores 10 on Neg-O-Meter
The dictionary definition for ingrate is “a person who does not show proper appreciation or thanks for something : an ungrateful person”. «The Suburban Times, Jul 15»
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In Lagos: Man divorces wife over adultery
She described her husband as an ingrate, adding that she paid his house rent and furnished his apartment. "My husband is ungrateful; I rented ... «Pulse Nigeria, Jul 15»
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Veteran's response to thank-yous is offensive
Mike Akullian's letter, "Don't thank me for my service," is a twisted tale of an unappreciative ingrate. His smugness and self-absorption borders ... «Florida Keys Keynoter, Jul 15»
7
The Lost Cause, Jewishly
... him an ingrate to the United States that gave “equality of rights even to that race that stoned prophets and crucified the redeemer of the world. «The Jewish Week, Jul 15»
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Great white shark is rescued from Chatham beach
In the event that this shark is an ingrate, at least it's been tagged, so we'll know where it's lurking off shore. (Insert ominous "Jaws" theme music ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
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The proof is in the experience
It was the fear of being found out as an ingrate, as the pressure grew overwhelming among the participants to show that you have fully ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
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ROOKS: Rythm of life is good and bad
To not count such blessings would be to be an ingrate in the extreme. There are other blessings, too. This past 4th of July, I reflected that, both ... «Rapid City Journal, Jul 15»

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