Usually means: Ungrateful person; doesn't appreciate kindness.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ingrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. ingrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ingrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ingrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ingrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ingrate, ingrate: Wordnik
  7. ingrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ingrate: Wiktionary
  9. ingrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ingrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ingrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ingrate, ingrate: Dictionary.com
  13. ingrate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. The Ingrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ingrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ingrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ingrate: Rhymezone
  18. Ingrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ingrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ingrate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ingrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ingrate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. ingrate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingrate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ingrate)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Unfriendly; unpleasant.
▸ noun:  An ungrateful person.

Similar:
thankless wretch, ungrateful person, gratefull, immeritous, indign, irrespective, grievable, unpitous, vengeable, inusitate, more...

Opposite:
grateful, thankful, appreciative

Types:
ungrateful, thankless, unappreciative, unthankful, more...

Adjectives:
little, such, old, beautiful, selfish, miserable, fair, dear, heedless, wretched, damned
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Similar:
thankless wretch, ungrateful person, gratefull, immeritous, indign, irrespective, grievable, unpitous, vengeable, inusitate, more...

Opposite:
grateful, thankful, appreciative

Types:
ungrateful, thankless, unappreciative, unthankful, more...

Adjectives:
little, such, old, beautiful, selfish, miserable, fair, dear, heedless, wretched, damned



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