English
Adjective
en-adj
- ungrateful|Ungrateful.
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
1671: Who, for so many benefits received, / Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false — John Milton, Paradise Regained
Translations
German: undankbar
Finnish: kiittämätön, epäkiitollinen
Noun
en-noun
- An ungrateful person.
Quotations
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
Italian
Adjective
ingrate p
- feminine of|ingrato#Adjective|ingrato
Noun
ingrate f
- plural of|ingrata|lang=Italian
Category:Italian adjective forms
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