"ingrate" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ingrate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more ingrate [comparative], most ingrate [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|ingrātus|t=disagreeable}} Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), {{af|la|in-|grātus|nocat=1|t1=not|t2=pleasing}} in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)
  1. (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful. Tags: obsolete, poetic
    Sense id: en-ingrate-en-adj-ENv~M7RP
  2. (obsolete) Unfriendly; unpleasant. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-ingrate-en-adj-DU4TMtDs Disambiguation of People: 0 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 82 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 85 8

Noun

IPA: /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ingrate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ingrates [plural]
Etymology: From Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|ingrātus|t=disagreeable}} Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), {{af|la|in-|grātus|nocat=1|t1=not|t2=pleasing}} in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ingrate (plural ingrates)
  1. An ungrateful person. Translations (an ungrateful person): неблагодарник (neblagodarnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 白眼狼 (báiyǎnláng) [Mainland-China, colloquial] (Chinese Mandarin), nevděčník [masculine] (Czech), kiittämätön (Finnish), niewdzięcznik [masculine] (Polish), niewdzięcznica [feminine] (Polish), неблагодарный (neblagodarnyj) (Russian), ingrato [masculine] (Spanish), ingrata [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ingrate-en-noun-qnKzPAEW

Inflected forms

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