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grateless

grateless adjective: without a grate.

Adjective

grateless (not comparable)

  1. Without a grate.
  2. (nonstandard) Ungrateful, thankless.
    • Knowe Lupus this, lest she thee call churle gratelesse, and vnkinde.1577, Timothe Kendall, Flovvers of Epigrammes, out of Sundrie the Moste Singular Authours Selected, as Well Auncient as Late Writers. […], London: […] [John Kingston] […] Ihon Shepperd; republished...
    • Nor Guasco, nor Rudolfo left behinde, / Nor th'one nor th'other Guido, famous both, / Nor Eurard, nor Gernier must slip my mind, / To passe in gratelesse silence more then loth, / Whither do you louers and spouses kind?[1594], Torquato Tasso, translated by R[ichard] C[arew], Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Hierusalem. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Thomas Man […]; republished in Early English Books...

Examples of grateless in a sentence

  • Brute spread his hands helplessly: “To think soch a fine woman should have soch a grateless child!”1942 March 27, Rupert Hughes, “His Fabulous Fortune”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 74, Chicago, Ill., page 35, column 8:
  • […] will you flee for the end of the aimless peasant or will you strike him down with an arrow kick if you delight for the peasant is grateless and I am grateful dead ha ha […]2016, Brandon West, Frankenstien: Playing the Guitar in the Plant, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

Origin of grateless

From grate + -less. Sense 2 on the analogy of grateful.

Questions about grateless

What does grateless mean?
Grateless means without a grate.
How do you use grateless in a sentence?
Brute spread his hands helplessly: “To think soch a fine woman should have soch a grateless child!”
What part of speech is grateless?
Grateless is an adjective.

Words near grateless in the dictionary

  1. gratefuller
  2. gratefullest
  3. gratefully
  4. gratefulness
  5. gratefulnesses
  6. grateless
  7. Grateley
  8. grater
  9. grater cake
  10. grater cakes
  11. graters

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