different between ingrate vs ingratiate

English

Etymology

From Latin ingr?tus (“disagreeable”), in- (“not”) +? gr?tus (“pleasing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??e?t/

Adjective

ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)

1. (obsolete, poetic) ungrateful

   • The causes of that which is pleasing , or ingrate to the hearing , may receive light by that which is pleasing or ingrate to the sight
2. (obsolete) unpleasant, unfriendly [18th c.]

Quotations

• 1590, Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
• 1596, But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. — William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

Translations

Noun

ingrate (plural ingrates)

1. an ungrateful person
   • 1843, But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods. — Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
   • 1860–61: "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
   • 1893, Out of my sight, ingrate! — W.S.Gilbert, Utopia Limited

Translations

Anagrams

• Geraint, Granite, Tangier, angrite, granite, tangier, tearing

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.??at/
• Homophone: ingrates

Adjective

ingrate

1. feminine singular of ingrat

Italian

Adjective

ingrate f pl

1. feminine plural of ingrato

Noun

ingrate f pl

1. plural of ingrata

Anagrams

• argenti, girante, granite, integra, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, Tangeri, tingerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in??ra?.te/, [????rä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in??ra.te/, [i???r??t??]

Adjective

ingr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ingr?tus

References

• ingrate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ingrate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

First attested in 1622. From Italian ingraziare or Medieval Latin *ingratiatus, from Latin in gr?tiam (“for the favor of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???e?.?i.e?t/
• Rhymes: -e??ie?t

Verb

ingratiate (third-person singular simple present ingratiates, present participle ingratiating, simple past and past participle ingratiated)

1. (reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 58:

     [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.

   • 2007 July 9, Brian Bennett, "Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):

     He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.

2. (followed by to) To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
   • c. 1650, Henry Hammond, "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition), p. 283 (Google preview):

     What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?

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Related terms

• ingratiating (adjective)
• ingratiation (noun)

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