ingratitude

Roget category 917

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.4. Retrospective sympathetic affections

#917. Ingratitude

noun

ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness^†.
benefits forgot —" thankless task, thankless office.

verb

be ungrateful etc. adj. — forget benefits — look a gift horse in the mouth.

adjective

ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful — thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits.
forgotten — unacknowledged, unthanked^†, unrequited, unrewarded — ill-requited.

interjection

thank you for nothing!, thanks for nothing!, et tu Brute! " [Julius Caesar].

phrase

ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

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