ingrate

From Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), in- (“not”) +‎ grātus (“pleasing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/

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ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)

1. (obsolete, poetic) ungrateful
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     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

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 61:

     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) unpleasant, unfriendly [18th c.]

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

  Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate

• c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

  But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.

ingrate (plural ingrates)

1. an ungrateful person
   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham

   • 1893, W.S.Gilbert, Utopia Limited:

     Out of my sight, ingrate!

• Geraint, Granite, Tangier, angrite, granite, tangier, tearing

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ɡʁat/

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ingrate

1. feminine singular of ingrat

ingrate f pl

1. feminine plural of ingrato

ingrate f pl

1. plural of ingrata

• Argenti, Tangeri, argenti, girante, granite, integra, negarit, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, tingerà

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈɡraː.te/, [ɪŋˈɡräːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈɡra.te/, [iŋˈɡräːt̪e]

ingrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ingrātus

• “ingrate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ingrate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette