ingratitude

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Lack of appreciation

Nouns

1. ingratitude, ungratefulness, unthankfulness.

2. ingrate, wretch, a serpent in one's bosom.

Verbs — be ungrateful, lack appreciation, look a gift horse in the mouth; bite the hand that feeds one, kick down the ladder.

Adjectives — ungrateful, unappreciative, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate; forgotten, unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded; ill-requited.

Quotations — Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou are not so unkind as man's ingratitude (Shakespeare), How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child (Shakespeare), Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims (Rabindranath Tagore), My first qualification for this great office is my monumental personal ingratitude (Fiorello La Guardia).

Antonyms, see gratitude.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. thanklessness, ungratefulness, callousness, boorishness, disloyalty, lack of appreciation, inconsiderateness, thoughtlessness; see also rudeness .

Ant. gratitude*, appreciation, consideration.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

ungratefulness, unthankfulness.