ungrateful

1. 1.

   not feeling or showing gratitude

   “ungrateful heirs”

   “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!”

   Synonymsthanklessunthankful

   Antonymsgrateful

   Similarunappreciative
2. 2.

   disagreeable

   “I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure”

   Similarunpleasant

Questions about ungrateful

What does ungrateful mean?

ungrateful 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 ungrateful?

ungrateful has 3 syllables: un-grate-ful. The stress falls on "grate". In IPA it is /ənˈɡɹeɪtfəl/.

What is another word for ungrateful?

Close synonyms include thankless, unthankful. 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.

What is the opposite of ungrateful?

The recorded antonyms are grateful.

Is ungrateful a common word?

ungrateful is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ungrateful?

1 word rhymes with ungrateful. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.