ungrateful
/ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/
ungrateful adjective: not grateful; not expressing gratitude.
Adjective
ungrateful (comparative more ungrateful, superlative most ungrateful)
- Not grateful; not expressing gratitude.
- Near-synonyms: unappreciative, unthankful
- “It seems to delight you to think that you are to leave Paris, and that we shall not see each other for months, perhaps. Tarzan, you are a most ungrateful beast!” and D’Arnot laughed.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “A Duel”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, pages 84–85
- Synonyms:
- unappreciative, unthankful
- Antonyms:
- grateful
- Disagreeable, repellent, unpleasant.
- If any care for what is here
Survive in spirits render’d free,
Then are these songs I sing of thee
Not all ungrateful to thine ear.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 59
- If any care for what is here
Noun
ungrateful (plural ungratefuls)
ungrateful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ungrateful in Hindi
- not grateful
- अकृतज्ञ akŕtajña, कृतघ्न kŕtaghna
ungrateful in Tamil
- நன்றியற்றவர், நன்றியற்றது, நன்றியற்றவன்
ungrateful in Marathi
- ungrateful, thankless
- कृतघ्न krutaghna
ungrateful in Urdu
- ungrateful, thankless
- احسان فراموش ehsān farāmoś
More languagesFewer languages
- ungrateful in Bengali
- অকৃতজ্ঞ ôkritôggõ
- ungrateful in Telugu
- కృతఘ్నము kr̥taghnamu
- ungrateful in Malayalam
- അകൃതജ്ഞ, നന്ദികെട്ട, കൃതജ്ഞതയില്ലാത്ത, നന്ദിയില്ലാത്ത
- ungrateful in Kannada
- ಕೃತಘ್ನ, ಉಪಕಾರ ಸ್ಮರಣೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ
- ungrateful in Gujarati
- અકૃતજ્ઞ
- ungrateful in Odia
- ଅକୃତଜ୍ଞ
- ungrateful in Sanskrit
- अकृतज्ञ akṛtajña
- ungrateful in Nepali
- अकृतज्ञ, कृतघ्न
- ungrateful in Tagalog
- busong, burisingkaw
- ungrateful in Indonesian
- tak berterimakasih, tidak tahu berterima kasih
- ungrateful in Thai
- ทรพี tɔɔ-rá-pii, อกตัญญู à-gà-dtan-yuu
Examples of ungrateful in a sentence
- Zelenskyy from the White House as if he were some ungrateful mendicant, has subsided.
- He is repugnant (stout, bald, elephantesque), and an ungrateful foreigner.
- You are ungrateful, impertinent, and contemptible, but I will save you in order to save Irma and our name.
Synonyms of ungrateful
Antonyms
Forms of ungrateful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ungrateful |
| superlative | most ungrateful |
| Noun | |
| plural | ungratefuls |
Origin of ungrateful
From un- + grateful.
Words formed from ungrateful
Questions about ungrateful
- What does ungrateful mean?
- Ungrateful means not grateful; not expressing gratitude.
- What is ungrateful in Hindi?
- Ungrateful in Hindi is अकृतज्ञ (akŕtajña), कृतघ्न (kŕtaghna). See Ungrateful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ungrateful?
- Ungrateful can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce ungrateful?
- Ungrateful is pronounced /ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/.
Words near ungrateful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ungrateful (page history and authors); ungrateful (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कृतघ्न (Marathi) (page history and authors); احسان فراموش (Urdu) (page history and authors); অকৃতজ্ঞ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ungrateful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ungrateful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ungrateful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ungrateful (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ungrateful (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-ungrateful.wav.
Cite this entry: “ungrateful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ungrateful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.