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thankless

thankless adjective: not appreciated or rewarded.

Adjective

thankless (not comparable)

  1. Not appreciated or rewarded.
    • One indispensable and thankless Unesco task is organizing tsunami warnings systems and pushing for tsunami education on risky shores around the world.2011 November 11, Andrew C. Revkin, “Dot Connection: From Palestinian Politics to Tsunami Warnings”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    • In a raucous atmosphere, it was an unforgiving and physical contest from the start. Grant Hanley conceded the first free-kick within the opening 20 seconds, setting the tone for a busy and thankless evening for Serbian referee Milorad Mazic.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman, archived from the original on 07 May 2016
  2. Ungrateful or unappreciative.

thankless meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

thankless in Urdu

احسان فراموش, ناشکرا

thankless in Malayalam

unpleasant, unenviable, difficult
നന്ദിയില്ലാത്ത, നന്ദികിട്ടാത്ത, നിഷ്ഫലമായ, അസൂയാർഹമല്ലാത്ത, അസൂയപ്പെടാനില്ലാത്ത, പ്രയാസമേറിയ
ungrateful, unappreciative, unthankful
അകൃതജ്ഞ, നന്ദികെട്ട, വാഗാരു, കൃതജ്ഞതയില്ലാത്ത, നന്ദിയില്ലാത്ത, അകൃതവേദി

thankless in Kannada

ಕೃತಘ್ನನಾದ, ಉಪಕಾರ ಸ್ಮರಿಸದ

Antonyms of thankless

Origin of thankless

From Middle English thankles, equivalent to thank + -less.

Words formed from thankless

Questions about thankless

What does thankless mean?
Thankless means not appreciated or rewarded.
What is thankless in Urdu?
Thankless in Urdu is احسان فراموش, ناشکرا. See Thankless meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is thankless?
Thankless is an adjective.

Words near thankless in the dictionary

  1. thanking
  2. thanking one's lucky stars
  3. thanking one's stars
  4. thankings
  5. thankiniside
  6. thankless
  7. thanklessly
  8. thanklessness
  9. thankly
  10. thanks
  11. thanks a bunch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thankless (page history and authors); thankless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thankless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); thankless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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