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English Dictionary: ungrateful by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ungrateful
adj
  1. not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare
    Synonym(s): ungrateful, thankless, unthankful
    Antonym(s): grateful, thankful
  2. disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ungrateful \Un*grate"ful\, a.
      1. Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns,
            or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.;
            ingrateful. --South.
  
      2. Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds
            are ungrateful to the ear. -- {Un*grate"ful*ly}, adv. --
            {Un*grate"ful*ness}, n.
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