Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ingrateful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-grate-ful
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

ungrateful; not grateful

Obsolete

adj

unpleasing to the sense; distasteful

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Ingrateful Eve"
"[…] under change of times, / And condemnation of the ingrateful multitude."
"Therefore what he gives / (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part / Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found / No ingrateful food"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in
Root: ingrātus
Suffix: ingrate

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more ingrateful (comparative) most ingrateful (superlative)

Derived Forms

ingratefully ingratefulness

Frequently Paired Words

ingrate

Questions

What does ingrateful mean?: ungrateful; not grateful
Where does ingrateful come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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