Ungrateful definition

ŭn-grātfəl
Not feeling or exhibiting gratitude, thanks, or appreciation.
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Not grateful; not expressing gratitude; a dissatisfied person.
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Not agreeable or pleasant; repellent.
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Origin of ungrateful

  • un- (“not") +"Ž grate +"Ž -ful (“grateful")

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Ungrateful Sentence Examples

  • As a king he proved ungrateful to his mother, and weak as a ruler.

  • There she was joined by Louis whom she adopted as her successor instead of the ungrateful Alphonso.

  • A treasonable senate secretly plotting his dethronement, a mutinous diet rejecting the most necessary reforms for fear of "absolutism," ungrateful allies who profited exclusively by his victories - these were his inseparable companions during the remainder of his life.

  • I didn't mean to be ungrateful.

  • Marie de' Medici had turned against her "ungrateful" minister with a hatred intensified, it is said, by unrequited passion.

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