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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INGRAT'ITUDE, n.
1. Want of gratitude or sentiments of kindness for favors received; insensibility to favors,and want of a disposition to repay them; unthankfulness.
Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
No man will own himself guilty of ingratitude.
2. Retribution of evil for good.
Nor was it with ingratitude returned.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lack of gratitude [syn: ingratitude, ungratefulness] [ant: gratitude]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin ingratitudo, from Latin in- + Late Latin gratitudo gratitude Date: 14th century forgetfulness of or poor return for kindness received ; ungratefulness

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a lack of due gratitude. Etymology: ME f. OF ingratitude or LL ingratitudo (as INGRATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ingratitude In*grat"i*tude, n. [F. ingratitude, L. ingratitudo. See Ingrate.] Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. --Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. --L'Estrange.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Ingratitude is lack of gratitude for something that has been done for you. The Government could expect only ingratitude from the electorate. ? gratitude

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Unthankfulness, thanklessness.