ingrate

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=grate

CIDE DICTIONARY

ingrate, a. [L. ingratus. See Ingrateful.].

 Ingrateful.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

ingrate, n. 

 An ungrateful person.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ingrate, n. & adj. formal or literary
--n. an ungrateful person.
--adj. ungrateful.

Etymology

ME f. L ingratus (as IN-(1), gratus grateful)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

ingrate

n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

"All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay,"
The good philanthropist replied;
"I did great service to a man one day
Who never since has cursed me to repay,
Nor vilified."

"Ho!" cried the cynic, "lead me to him straight --
With veneration I am overcome,
And fain would have his blessing." "Sad your fate --
He cannot bless you, for AI grieve to state
This man is dumb."
Ariel Selp

ROGET THESAURUS

ingrate

Ingratitude

N ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness, benefits forgot, thankless task, thankless office, ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful, thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits, forgotten, unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded, ill- requited, Int, thank you for nothing!, thanks for nothing!, et tu Brute!, ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend.