ingratitude

English

Etymology

From Old French ingratitude, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. By surface analysis, in- +‎ gratitude.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɹætɪtud/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɹætɪtjuːd/, /ɪnˈɡɹætɪtʃuːd/
• Hyphenation: in‧grat‧i‧tude

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Noun

ingratitude (usually uncountable, plural ingratitudes)

1. A lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”

   • 1966, Age & Scarpelli, Sergio Leone, and Luciano Vincenzoni (writers), Sergio Leone (director), Clint Eastwood (actor), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (movie), Produzioni Europee Associati:

     Blondie: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.

   Antonym: gratitude

Related terms

• ungrateful

Translations

thanklessness

• Armenian: երախտամոռություն (hy) (eraxtamoṙutʿyun), ապերախտություն (hy) (aperaxtutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: naşükürlük, nankorluq, yaxşılıq bilməmə
• Bulgarian: неблагодарност (bg) f (neblagodarnost)
• Catalan: ingratitud f
• Czech: nevděk m, nevděčnost (cs) f
• Dutch: ondankbaarheid (nl) f
• Finnish: epäkiitollisuus (fi)
• French: ingratitude (fr) f
• Galician: ingratitude (gl) f, engratidume f (archaic)
• Georgian: უმადურობა (umaduroba)
• German: Undank (de) m, Undankbarkeit (de) f, fehlende Dankbarkeit f
• Greek: αγνωμοσύνη (el) f (agnomosýni), αχαριστία (el) f (acharistía)
• Hungarian: hálátlanság (hu)
• Latvian: nepateicība f, nepateicīgums m
• Manx: anwooise m, neuwooise m
• Plautdietsch: Ondank m
• Polish: niewdzięczność (pl) f
• Portuguese: ingratidão (pt) f
• Russian: неблагода́рность (ru) f (neblagodárnostʹ)
• Saterland Frisian: Uuntonk m
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-thaing f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: незахва́лно̄ст f

  Roman: nezahválnōst (sh) f

• Spanish: ingratitud (es) f
• Swedish: otacksamhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabusungan, pasiwalanloob, kaburisingkawan
• Telugu: కృతఘ్నత (te) (kr̥taghnata)
• Ukrainian: невдя́чність f (nevdjáčnistʹ)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ɡʁa.ti.tyd/

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• Homophone: ingratitudes
• Hyphenation: in‧gra‧ti‧tude

Noun

ingratitude f (plural ingratitudes)

1. ingratitude, ungratefulness

   Antonym: gratitude

Further reading

• “ingratitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.