INGRATITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ingratitude mean? 

• INGRATITUDE (noun)
  The noun INGRATITUDE has 1 sense:

1. a lack of gratitude

  Familiarity information: INGRATITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INGRATITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lack of gratitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

ingratitude; ungratefulness

Hypernyms ("ingratitude" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Antonym:

gratitude (a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation)

 Context examples 

I, who am owing all my happiness to you, would not it be horrible ingratitude in me to be severe on them?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The girls, who by this time were used to his ingratitude, went on their way and did their business in town.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A letter of proper submission! repeated he; would they have me beg my mother's pardon for Robert's ingratitude to HER, and breach of honour to ME?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Miss Crawford's attentions to you have been—not more than you were justly entitled to—I am the last person to think that could be, but they have been invariable; and to be returning them with what must have something the air of ingratitude, though I know it could never have the meaning, is not in your nature, I am sure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He bore with philosophy the conviction that Elizabeth must now become acquainted with whatever of his ingratitude and falsehood had before been unknown to her; and in spite of every thing, was not wholly without hope that Darcy might yet be prevailed on to make his fortune.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity: she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingratitude.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)