ingrateful
adjEtymology From ingrate (“unfriendly”) + -ful, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”).
1
Obsolete ungrateful; not grateful
- Ingrateful Eve1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- […] under change of times, / And condemnation of the ingrateful multitude.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
2
Obsolete unpleasing to the sense; distasteful
- Therefore what he gives / (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part / Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found / No ingrateful food1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- Derived terms
- ingratefully, ingratefulness
- Related terms
- ingrate