Ingrate

Origin

From Latin ingrātus ("disagreeable"), -("not") + grātus("pleasing").

Full definition of ingrate

Adjective

1. (obsolete, poetic) Ungrateful.
2. (obsolete, 1700s) Unpleasant, unfriendly

Noun

1. An ungrateful person.
• 1843, 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. — Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
• 1860–61: "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• 1893, Out of my sight, ingrate! — W.S.Gilbert, Utopia Limited

Anagrams

• angrite, granite, tangier, Tangier, tearing