ingrate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ungrateful or unpleasant person.
    — But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods.
形容词 adj.
  1. Ungrateful. obsolete,poetic
    — Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.
  2. Unfriendly; unpleasant. obsolete

词形变化

more ingrate comparative most ingrate superlative ingrates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ingrateful ingrately

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English ingrat, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Cognate with French ingrat.
词源 2
First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English ingrat, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Cognate with French ingrat.
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