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Meaning of "ingrateful" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INGRATEFUL

ingrateful  [ɪnˈɡreɪtfʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INGRATEFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ingrateful is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INGRATEFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ingrateful in the English dictionary

The definition of ingrateful in the dictionary is ungrateful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INGRATEFUL


affrightful
əˈfraɪtfʊl
basketful
ˈbɑːskɪtfʊl
bucketful
ˈbʌkɪtfʊl
crateful
ˈkreɪtfʊl
debateful
dɪˈbeɪtfʊl
delightful
dɪˈlaɪtfʊl
despiteful
dɪˈspaɪtfʊl
fateful
ˈfeɪtfʊl
fitful
ˈfɪtfʊl
frightful
ˈfraɪtfʊl
grateful
ˈɡreɪtfʊl
hateful
ˈheɪtfʊl
insightful
ˈɪnsaɪtfʊl
lightful
ˈlaɪtfʊl
plateful
ˈpleɪtfʊl
pocketful
ˈpɒkɪtfʊl
rightful
ˈraɪtfʊl
spiteful
ˈspaɪtfʊl
sprightful
ˈspraɪtfʊl
ungrateful
ʌnˈɡreɪtfʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INGRATEFUL

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE INGRATEFUL

careful
disgraceful
distasteful
forceful
graceful
hasteful
hopeful
ireful
peaceful
purposeful
requiteful
resourceful
shameful
spriteful
suspenseful
tasteful
untasteful
useful
vengeful
wasteful

Synonyms and antonyms of ingrateful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ingrateful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INGRATEFUL

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

Translator English - Chinese

ingrateful
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ingrato
570 millions of speakers

English

ingrateful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ingrateful
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ingrateful
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ingrateful
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ingrateful
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ingrateful
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ingrat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak menghiraukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ingrateful
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ingrateful
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ingrateful
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ingrateful
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ingrateful
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ingrateful
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कृतघ्न
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nankör
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingrato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ingrateful
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ingrateful
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ingrateful
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ingrateful
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ingrateful
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ingrateful
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ingrateful
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ingrateful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INGRATEFUL»

The term «ingrateful» is used very little and occupies the 179.672 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INGRATEFUL» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INGRATEFUL»

Discover the use of ingrateful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ingrateful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
Accordingly Dr. Johnson gives but a solitary example of ingrateful, and that under the second definition. Yet no word has been more in use, by our in both senses, than in- best writers, grateful.] 1. Ungrateful ; unthankful. That we have been ...
Samuel Johnson, 1827
2
A sermon [on Ps. xxxv, 12] preached at Edinburgh, December ...
The Ingrateful ! Who are the cruel Instruments of tyranny, and the fierce Tools of bloody Faction ? The Ingrateful ! Who commit private Murders, Assassination and Paricide ? The Ingrateful ! Who are they that violate the strictest Engagements, ...
Patrick Cuming, 1746
3
The Complete Concordance to Shakspere: Being a Verbal Index ...
Cariolanut, v. 8 INURATEFUI^ingratefulboy there.. Twelfth X. v. 1 thou cruel, ingrateful, savage Henry V. ii. 2 more bring out ingrateful m*.n\..Timonqf Ath. iv. 3 were a kind of ingrateful injury.. ..Coriolanus, El. 2 for the multitude to be Ingrateful.
Mary Cowden Clarke, 1847
4
Whartoniana; or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose. By the ...
ingrateful, and to convince you that '• I mean what I write, I will settle the Estate " just left me by my Brother, upon you, soon " as you return to Arcadia. I blush not at this " Condescension, because it is the Fruit of a " virtuous Love. I shall expect ...
Edmund Curll, 1727
5
A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts: On the Most ...
L. There are a sort of people (ingrateful as they are) that will sacrifice the honour of their greatest benefactors ... But I think myself bound (in justice) to vindicate one (in particular) from being thought ingrateful to the memory of his murdered lord.
Sir Walter Scott, Baron John Somers Somers, 1813
6
The works of Isaac Barrow
Now, then, considering all these advantages of our calling, if we by our negligence or sluggishness therein do lose them, are we not very ingrateful to God, who gave them, as with a gracious intent for our good, so with expectation that we ...
Isaac Barrow, Abraham Hill, James Hamilton, 1845
7
The Beauties of Nature, Displayed in a Sentimental Ramble ...
A grateful Man is rarely Friendless, when the Ingrateful are the Detestation of Mankind. A truly grateful Man can not be wicked, nor an ingrateful one good. The former is a Blessing to his Fellow-creatures, and an Honour to Humanity; the latter ...
W. Jackson (of Lichfield Close.), 1769
8
The Works of Shakespear...
1 Let it no more bring oat to ingrateful man. ' Go great with tygers, dragons, wolves and bears, * Teem with new monsters, * whom thy upward-face ' Hath to the marbled mansion all above * Never presented O, a root dear thanks ! « s Dry up thy ...
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, 1747
9
The Famous History of Cassandra: Containing Many Admirable ...
... it in Torments, that would render it a thousand times worse than Death, I resolved to end it in the sight of that ingrateful Man ; and taking up a Knife I law lying on the Table, Ingrateful Man ( said I ) hardhearted and perhaps disloyal Theander, ...
Gaultier de Coste La Calprenède (seigneur de), 1703
10
A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on the Most ...
L. There are a sort of people (ingrateful as they are) that will sacrifice the honour of their greatest benefactors, rather than themselves should be thought ingrateful. 'And of this sort are many that have been preferred by this great, but unfortunate ...
Sir Walter Scott, 1818

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INGRATEFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ingrateful is used in the context of the following news items.
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[POLL] WHO DID THIS TO THE MEN'S ROOM
You dang ingrateful millennials. (20 votes). 57% Oh, wait, yeah, Bret probably did it. Nevermind, guys, Bret did it. (538 votes). 936 votes total ... «EDSBS, Jun 15»
2
Workers' protest, mayors' boycott marrs Erdoğan's speech
"Don't be ingrateful," Erdoğan said angrily when some 30 people started to shout protest slogans during his speech at the inauguration of ... «Hurriyet Daily News, May 15»
3
Hit-and-run case: Salman clicked at the Mumbai court wearing lucky …
Sometimes i think Salman can just cross seas and live there and help people out there than this ingrateful country of big mouths and hypocrites. «PINKVILLA, Mar 15»
4
There is no cold. Only absence of heat
Shakespeare used it in "King John:" "I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.". «The News Journal, Jan 15»
5
UPDATE: Rankled Boston Mayor's Minions Held Up Non-Union …
Who needs the cost and the headache of gangster-land behavior from ingrateful craft-service fed monsters? Frank • on Aug 22, 2014 5:15 pm. «Deadline.com, Aug 14»
6
Electronic Arts' SimCity Mods Policy: Ingrateful Basterds
When it was first announced, I was happy to look on the bright side of Electronic Arts' and Maxis' “shocking” discovery that they could do the ... «Game Front, Jan 14»
7
"Masterpieces of Everyday New York" Explores NYC Living Through …
Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once / That make ingrateful man!" Even if their response was not to be in Shakespearean English, the ... «Papermag, Jun 13»
8
Shraddha Kapoor backs out of singer Arjun Kanungo's music video
I agrree she shoud not be doing the music video anymore, but there is no reason for her to be so ingrateful and rude. yuckkkk attitude, hope this ... «Times of India, Jun 13»
9
Search and rescue winds down a day after deadly Oklahoma tornado
comment author avatar. Buddy O She probably saved your @!$%# if you were of draft age ingrateful bastard. Many Americans owe their lives to ... «NBCNews.com, May 13»
10
Jon Stewart Takes On HSBC & AIG In 'Disgraced Financial …
First up, was HSBC, or as Stewart re-dubbed it, "Holy Shit, Bank Corrupt". He then he moved on to those "Ingrateful Basterds" at AIG. Watch part ... «Huffington Post, Jan 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ingrateful [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ingrateful>. May 2024 ».
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