ingrate

What does ingrate mean?

ingrate means "a person who shows no gratitude".

How many syllables are in ingrate?

ingrate has 2 syllables and divides as in-grate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ingrate?

Close synonyms include thankless wretch, ungrateful person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ingrate a common word?

ingrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ingrate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.