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Definitions for ungrateful
ʌnˈgreɪt fəlun·grate·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ungrateful, thankless, unthankfuladjective

    not feeling or showing gratitude

    "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare

  2. ungratefuladjective

    disagreeable

    "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln

Wiktionary

  1. ungratefuladjective

    not grateful; not expressing gratitude; a dissatisfied person.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ungratefuladjective

    No person is remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud. South.

    Most when driv’n by winds, the flaming storm
    Of the long files destroys the beauteous form;
    Nor will the wither’d stock be green again;
    But the wild olive shoots, and shades th’ ungrateful plain. Dryd.

    It cannot be ungrateful, or without some pleasure to posterity, to see the most exact relation of an action so full of danger. Edward Hyde.

    What is in itself harsh and ungrateful, must make harsh and ungrateful impressions upon us. Francis Atterbury.

Wikipedia

  1. Ungrateful

    Ungratefulness is the lack of gratitude.

ChatGPT

  1. ungrateful

    Ungrateful refers to a person who is not thankful or does not express gratitude for benefits or kindness received, often taking them for granted or showing a lack of appreciation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ungratefuladjective

    not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful

  2. Ungratefuladjective

    unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ungrateful

    un-grāt′fōōl, 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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ungrateful in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ungrateful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ungrateful in a Sentence

  1. Shari Smith:

    So how can you possibly be ungrateful in my situation? How can you possibly take this for granted? since the time he was [diagnosed], he’s been enthusiastic, and happy, and I’m not kidding.

  2. Julia Brownley:

    We all know there's a somewhat dark place in our history when men and women returned from Vietnam. They returned to an ungrateful nation. And I think John Canley will say this award is so important because the Marines I served with are so deserving of this recognition, this will go down in the history books and hopefully correct a piece of that.

  3. The Metro Para pledge:

    We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

  4. Kahlil Gibran:

    I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

  5. Kahlil Gibran:

    I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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