English

Adjective

ingrate ‎(comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)

1. (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.

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2. (obsolete, 1700s) Unpleasant, unfriendly.

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

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

Anagrams

• angrite, granite, tangier, Tangier, tearing

French

Adjective

ingrate

1. feminine singular of ingrat

Italian

Adjective

ingrate f pl

1. feminine plural of ingrato

Noun

ingrate f

1. plural of ingrata

Anagrams

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

Latin

Adjective

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ingrate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.