- ingrato
- adj.ungrateful, disagreeable, unpleasant, ingrate.* * *ingrato► adjetivo1 (persona) ungrateful2 (trabajo, tarea) thankless3 (tiempo) unpleasant* * *ingrato, -a1.ADJ [persona] ungrateful; [tarea] thankless, unrewarding; [sabor] unpleasant, disagreeable
¡ingrato! — you're so ungrateful!
2.SM / F ungrateful person¡eres un ingrato! — you're so ungrateful!
* * *I-ta adjetivoa) (desagradecido) <persona> ungratefulingrato con ella — ungrateful to her
b) (desagradable, difícil) <vida> hard; <trabajo/tarea> unrewardingII-ta masculino, femenino ungrateful wretch (o swine etc) (colloq), ingrate (liter)* * *= invidious, thankless, unappreciative, unsavoury [unsavory, -USA], ungrateful.Ex. Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.Ex. This article is entitled 'Thankless tasks': academics and librarians in the novels of Barbara Pym'.Ex. Convinced that most Americans were unappreciative and unreachable, they became increasingly autocratic and elitist and made their libraries even less appealing to the common man.Ex. Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.Ex. For this reason he dubbed man the 'ungrateful biped'.----* ser un ingrato = bite + the hand that feeds + Pronombre.* * *I-ta adjetivoa) (desagradecido) <persona> ungratefulingrato con ella — ungrateful to her
b) (desagradable, difícil) <vida> hard; <trabajo/tarea> unrewardingII-ta masculino, femenino ungrateful wretch (o swine etc) (colloq), ingrate (liter)* * *= invidious, thankless, unappreciative, unsavoury [unsavory, -USA], ungrateful.Ex: Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.
Ex: This article is entitled 'Thankless tasks': academics and librarians in the novels of Barbara Pym'.Ex: Convinced that most Americans were unappreciative and unreachable, they became increasingly autocratic and elitist and made their libraries even less appealing to the common man.Ex: Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.Ex: For this reason he dubbed man the 'ungrateful biped'.* ser un ingrato = bite + the hand that feeds + Pronombre.* * *ingrato1 -taadjective1 (desagradecido) ‹persona› ungrateful¿cómo puedes ser tan ingrato con ella? how can you be so ungrateful to her?2 (desagradable, difícil) ‹vida› hard; ‹trabajo/tarea› thankless, unrewardingingrato2 -tamasculine, feminineungrateful wretch ( o swine etc) (colloq), ingrate (liter)es una ingrata she's so ungrateful, she's an ungrateful devil* * *
ingrato◊ -ta adjetivoa) (desagradecido) ‹persona› ungrateful;◊ ingrato con ella ungrateful to herb) (desagradable, difícil) ‹vida› hard;
‹trabajo/tarea› unrewarding
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
ungrateful wretch (o swine etc) (colloq), ingrate (liter)
ingrato,-a
I adjetivo
1 (persona) ungrateful
2 (objeto, situación) unpleasant
3 (que no compensa) thankless, unrewarding: tengo un trabajo muy ingrato, I have a very thankless job
II sustantivo masculino y femenino ungrateful person
'ingrato' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
encasquetar
- ingrata
English:
invidious
- thankless
- ungrateful
- disagreeable
- unappreciative
* * *ingrato, -a♦ adj1. [persona] ungrateful;ser ingrato con alguien to be ungrateful to sb2. [trabajo] thankless♦ nm,fungrateful person;es un ingrato he's so ungrateful* * *ingratoadj persona ungrateful; tarea thankless* * *ingrato, -ta adj1) : ungrateful2) : thanklessingrato, -ta n: ingrate* * *ingrato adj1. (persona) ungrateful2. (tarea) thankless
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.