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ungrateful
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ungrateful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ungrateful has 2 senses
- ungrateful(a = adj.all) thankless, unthankful - not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" Antonym: grateful
- ungrateful(s = adj.all) Array - disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"
Derived form noun ungratefulness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
ungrateful, a.
- Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful. South. [1913 Webster]
- Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ungrateful, adj.
1 not feeling or showing gratitude.
2 not pleasant or acceptable.
1 not feeling or showing gratitude.
2 not pleasant or acceptable.
Derivative
ungratefully adv. ungratefulness n.
ROGET THESAURUS
ungrateful
Ingratitude
N ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness, benefits forgot, thankless task, thankless office, ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful, thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits, forgotten, unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded, ill- requited, Int, thank you for nothing!, thanks for nothing!, et tu Brute!, ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend.
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