| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section III. Sympathetic Affections | | 4. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections |
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| 917. Ingratitude. |
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| NOUN: | INGRATITUDE, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness.
“benefits forgot” [As You Like It]; thankless task, thankless office.
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| VERB: | BE UNGRATEFUL &c. adj.; feel no obligation, owe one no thanks, forget benefits; look a gift horse in the mouth.
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| ADJECTIVE: | UNGRATEFUL, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits.
forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded; ill-requited; ill-rewarded.
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| INTERJECTION: | thank you for nothing! “et tu Brute!” [Julius Cæsar]. |
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend.—Lear
- This was the most unkindest cut of all.—Julius Cæsar
- Hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning.—Wordsworth
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