ingrate

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/ === Adjective === ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate) (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful. c. 1820, John Keats, Sonnet to Chatterton; published 1901 in The Poetical Works of John Keats in "The World's Classics", reprinted (New edition) 1927, London: Oxford University Press, p. 261 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. (obsolete) Unfriendly; unpleasant. [18th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === ingrate (plural ingrates) An ungrateful or unpleasant person. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === gratiné, angrite, tangier, tearing, Tangier, Geraint, Granite, granite == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛ̃.ɡʁat/ Homophone: ingrates === Adjective === ingrate feminine singular of ingrat == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /inˈɡra.te/ Rhymes: -ate Hyphenation: in‧grà‧te === Adjective === ingrate feminine plural of ingrato === Noun === ingrate f pl plural of ingrata === Anagrams === Argenti, Tangeri, argenti, girante, granite, integra, negarit, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, tingerà == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪŋˈɡraː.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iŋˈɡraː.te] === Adjective === ingrāte 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 “ingrate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.