ungrateful
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɡreɪtfəl/
- He seemed ungrateful after receiving such a generous gift from his friend.
And you will never see an ungrateful, happy person.
- And you will never see an ungrateful, happy person.
- But if you're ungrateful, you're unhappy.
- Oh, called her ungrateful over the gift.
- But to push back on that controlling parent means that you're being ungrateful and selfish.
- If you express that you want recognition, you're viewed as being needy and ungrateful and selfish and attention seeking.
- You know, people that are entitled, ungrateful, that sort of thing.
- I hate people thinking I'm ungrateful because I am eternally grateful for everything that has come out of doing this.
- Yes yes you're my favorite bunch of lying, ungrateful fake dead people.
- When you're ungrateful, your brain, it becomes rigid and unchanging.
- Actually wore AT shirt that said Happy treason day, ungrateful colonials.
- and I felt a little selfish in the sense of or ungrateful
Examples
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Upon my word, sir, you're ungrateful.
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So you say, Rogan said lightly, but patients are notoriously ungrateful, you know that?
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And you will never see an ungrateful, happy person.
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It's like being ungrateful for what you, I guess, currently have.
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Pretty ungrateful if you ask me, but...
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Well, some people are ungrateful.
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Well, I wouldn't want to seem ungrateful to God or to you.
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Because there's always going to be that one ungrateful, difficult, complicated person.
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I hate people thinking I'm ungrateful because I am eternally grateful for everything that has come out of doing this.
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When you're ungrateful, your brain, it becomes rigid and unchanging.
Synonyms
Not grateful when others help or give you things
Not feeling grateful when someone helps you
Not showing that you value someone's help or kindness
Antonyms
Compounds
How Grateful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ungrateful is made of un- 'not' and grat from Latin gratus 'pleasing' or 'thankful', the same root as gratitude. So an ungrateful person is 'not thankful' and does not show thanks.