ingrate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/

Adjective

ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)

1. (obsolete, poetic) ungrateful

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] 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.]

Quotations

• 1590, Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
• 1596, But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. — William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

Translations

ungrateful — see ungrateful

obsolete: unpleasant, unfriendly

• Finnish: kiittämätön (fi), epäkiitollinen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Noun

ingrate (plural ingrates)

1. an ungrateful person
   • 1843, 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. — Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
   • 1860–61: "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
   • 1893, Out of my sight, ingrate! — W.S.Gilbert, Utopia Limited

Translations

an ungrateful person

• Bulgarian: неблагодарник (bg) m (neblagodarnik)
• Czech: nevděčník m
• Finnish: kiittämätön (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: niewdzięcznik (pl) m, niewdzięcznica (pl) f
• Russian: неблагодарный (ru) (neblagodarnyj)
• Spanish: ingrato (es) m, ingrata (es) f

Anagrams

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ɡʁat/
• Homophone: ingrates

Adjective

ingrate

1. feminine singular of ingrat

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Italian

Adjective

ingrate f pl

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective ingrato.

Noun

ingrate f pl

1. plural of ingrata

Anagrams

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) ingrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ingrātus

References

• “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.