Ungrateful
[ʌn'greɪtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or [ʌn'ɡretfl]
Definition
(adj.) not feeling or showing gratitude; 'ungrateful heirs'; 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!'- Shakespeare .
(adj.) disagreeable; 'I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure'- Abraham Lincoln .
Checked by Abby--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
(a.) Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unthankful, without gratitude.[2]. Unpleasing, offensive, disagreeable, ungracious.
Checker: Seymour
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Thankless, unthankful,[See UNGAINLY]
Typist: Toni
Definition
adj. not feeling or manifesting gratitude: disagreeable irksome: not repaying one's labour thankless.—n. Ungrate′ an ungrateful person.—adj. ungrateful.—adv. Ungrate′fully.—n. Ungrate′fulness.
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Examples
- Heaven defend me from being ungrateful! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- As if you had anything to make you unhappy, instead of everything to make you happy, you ungrateful heart! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A man that is ungrateful to his benefactor, in a manner affirms, that he never received any favours from him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Very well, you ungrateful, naughty, hard-hearted boy! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Isn't this ungrateful of you, now? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Is it likely that I would wilfully add to my other self-reproaches, that of being ungrateful or treacherous to you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That ungrateful Melnos! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I am sure I am not ungrateful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr Wrayburn, I have had a bitter trial to-night, and I hope you will not think me ungrateful, or mysterious, or changeable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The unthinking, he said, the ungrateful, to scorn him who, amidst blood and flames, would have saved her life at the risk of his own! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Is he ungrateful to no one else? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am not ungrateful, sir. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was not that--I was not ungrateful, she insisted. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was so wicked, so untrue and ungrateful, how could I say it! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Don't think it unreasonable or ungrateful in me,' said Little Dorrit, with returning and increasing agitation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Selfish and ungrateful! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- How can I be ungrateful enough to have any concealment from you? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He might have softened his father; but all, perhaps all, would think her selfish and ungrateful. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Seem--seem--so very ungrateful. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was very ungrateful, Amelia said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You are ungrateful. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He is not ungrateful for winning her, whispered Eustacia, and in that respect he is a good man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You are proud, and therefore you are ungrateful too. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, and what if he did, you little ungrateful wretch? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Go down on your knees and pray to God to cleanse your wicked ungrateful heart, Amelia, and may He forgive you as I do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Just now, there are no sounds to come from the mill; the hands have been ungrateful enough to turn out, as perhaps you have heard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- These military gentlemen are ungrateful to an invention which shoved and butted them into victory almost in spite of themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Be it so, kind maiden, said Ivanhoe; I were most ungrateful to dispute thy commands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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