Ungrateful Meaning
/ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot grateful; not expressing gratitude.
adjDisagreeable, repellent, unpleasant.
Sentence Examples
After all we had done, he was still ungrateful.
She's an ungrateful child.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After all the help we gave him, he did not say thank you and was very ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She felt that the assistant was being ____ after she had spent so much of her own time helping him today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English un- English grateful English ungrateful From un- + grateful.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“It seems to delight you to think that you are to leave Paris, and that we shall not see each other for months, perhaps. Tarzan, you are a most ungrateful beast!” and D’Arnot laughed."
— 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “A Duel”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
"If any care for what is here
Survive in spirits render’d free,
Then are these songs I sing of thee
Not all ungrateful to thine ear."
— 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 59:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After all the help we gave him, he did not say thank you and was very ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She felt that the assistant was being ____ after she had spent so much of her own time helping him today.