ingrate
/ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.98 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ungrateful or unpleasant person.
Example Sentences
- "Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents."
- "Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate"
- "But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke."
- "The causes of that which is pleasing , or ingrate to the hearing , may receive light by that which is pleasing or ingrate to the sight"
- "Who, for ſo many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and falſe, / And ſo of all true good himſelf deſpoil'd, […]"
- "thou art among the stars / of highest Heaven: to the rolling spheres / Thou sweetly singest: naught thy hymning mars, / Above the ingrate world and human fears."
Etymology
First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English ingrat, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Cognate with French ingrat.
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: First attested in 1393
Word Breakdown
- Root: ingrat, ingrātus