Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ingrately

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-grate-ly
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

ungratefully

Obsolete

Etymology

From ingrate + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more ingrately (comparative) most ingrately (superlative)

Questions

What does ingrately mean?
ungratefully
Where does ingrately come from?
From ingrate + -ly.

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