Meaning

(obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.
2. (obsolete) Unfriendly; unpleasant.
3. An ungrateful or unpleasant person.

Example Sentences

thou art among the stars / of highest Heaven: to the rolling spheres / Thou sweetly singest: naught thy hymning mars, / Above the ingrate world and human fears.

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.

Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate

But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.

The causes of that which is pleasing , or ingrate to the hearing , may receive light by that which is pleasing or ingrate to the sight

Who, for ſo many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and falſe, / And ſo of all true good himſelf deſpoil'd, […]

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.

"Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.”

Word Forms

• more ingrate
• most ingrate
• ingrates

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