| 单词 | ungrateful |
| 释义 | ungrateful (once / 856 pages) 1adj 2adj Someone who's ungrateful isn't thankful or appreciative. Your grandmother might think you're ungrateful if you don't send her a handwritten thank you note for the birthday gift she gave you. You are ungrateful if you're unhappy with your neighbor's contribution to your yard sale — a big old television that doesn't work. Your neighbor, in turn, is ungrateful if he accepts the chocolate chip cookies you baked without even saying, "Thanks." The prefix un here means "not," and grateful comes from a now obsolete adjective, grate, "agreeable or thankful," from the Latin root gratus, "pleasing." WORD FAMILYungrateful: ungratefulest, ungratefully, ungratefulness+/grate: grated, grateful, grater, grates, grating/grateful: gratefuler, gratefulest, gratefully, gratefulness, ungrateful/grater: graters/grating: gratingly, gratings/ungratefulness: ungratefulnesses USAGE EXAMPLESMr Trump does not merely find foreigners ungrateful. Economist(Dec 08, 2016) “At the risk of sounding ungrateful, we say, ‘Thanks, but please hurry,’ ” said Kevin Ring, vice president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) Not that he is ungrateful for his success in the months since the finals. Seattle Times(Nov 14, 2016) 1 adj not feeling or showing gratitude 2ungrateful heirs Syn|Ant thankless, unthankful unappreciative not feeling or expressing gratitude grateful, thankful feeling or showing gratitude appreciativefeeling or expressive of gratitude gladfeeling happy appreciation adj disagreeable "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln Syn unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
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