Meaning of Ingrate | Babel Free
ˈɪnɡɹeɪtDefinitions
An ungrateful or unpleasant person.
Equivalents
Examples
“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”
“Out of my sight, ingrate!”
“The consensus—certainly among the great and the good of Cambridge, Massachusetts—was that he was an ultranationalist, a reactionary, and, above all, an ingrate.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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