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English
Etymology
From Old French ingratitude, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. By surface analysis, in- + gratitude.
Pronunciation
Noun
ingratitude (usually uncountable, plural ingratitudes)
- A lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”
- 1966, Age & Scarpelli, Sergio Leone, and Luciano Vincenzoni (writers), Sergio Leone (director), Clint Eastwood (actor), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (movie), Produzioni Europee Associati:
- Blondie: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.
- Antonym: gratitude
Translations
thanklessness
- Armenian: երախտամոռություն (hy) (eraxtamoṙutʻyun), ապերախտություն (hy) (aperaxtutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: naşükürlük, nankorluq, yaxşılıq bilməmə
- Bulgarian: неблагодарност (bg) f (neblagodarnost)
- Catalan: ingratitud f
- Czech: nevděk m, nevděčnost (cs) f
- Dutch: ondankbaarheid (nl) f
- Finnish: epäkiitollisuus (fi)
- French: ingratitude (fr) f
- Galician: ingratitude (gl) f, engratidume f (archaic)
- Georgian: უმადურობა (umaduroba)
- German: Undank (de) m, Undankbarkeit (de) f, fehlende Dankbarkeit f
- Greek: αγνωμοσύνη (el) f (agnomosýni), αχαριστία (el) f (acharistía)
- Hungarian: hálátlanság (hu)
- Latvian: nepateicība f, nepateicīgums m
- Manx: anwooise m, neuwooise m
- Plautdietsch: Ondank m
- Polish: niewdzięczność (pl) f
- Portuguese: ingratidão (pt) f
- Russian: неблагода́рность (ru) f (neblagodárnostʹ)
- Saterland Frisian: Uuntonk m
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-thaing f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: незахва́лно̄ст f
- Roman: nezahválnōst (sh) f
- Spanish: ingratitud (es) f
- Swedish: otacksamhet (sv) c
- Tagalog: kabusungan, pasiwalanloob, kaburisingkawan
- Telugu: కృతఘ్నత (te) (kr̥taghnata)
- Ukrainian: невдя́чність f (nevdjáčnistʹ)
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō.
Pronunciation
Noun
ingratitude f (plural ingratitudes)
- ingratitude, ungratefulness
- Antonym: gratitude
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