thankless

Other forms of thankless

comparative

thanklesser·

superlative

thanklessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thankless

What does thankless mean?

thankless means "not feeling or showing gratitude". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thankless?

thankless has 2 syllables: than-kless. The stress falls on "than". In IPA it is /ˈθæŋkləs/.

What is another word for thankless?

Close synonyms include ungrateful, unthankful, unappreciated, ungratifying. 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 thankless a common word?

thankless 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.