Vnpleasant: vnacceptable. Ingrata amaritudo. Pli. An vnpleasant bitternes. Ioci non ingrati. Ouid. Onus ingratum. Catul. Ingrata oratio: cui opponitur Iucunda. Quin. An vnpleasãt sentence. Ingrati saporis caseus. Colum. Chese that hath an vnpleasãt taste. Superbia ingrata Veneri. Hor. Tempora ingrata. Hor. Ingratum virus. Plin. Ingratus, actiuæ significanonis. Te. Vnkinde: vnthankeful: vugtate: that acknowledgeth not a pleasure done. Animus ingratus. Sen. An vnth ankeful hart. Nihil cognoui ingratius. Cic. I neuer knew a more vnkinde person. Aduersum deos ingrati. Gel. Vnthankeful toward god. Quum Epicurus in Democritum ipsum fuerit ingratus. Ci. Ingratus. Donat. Constrained: against his wil. Ingratus vt dormiam. Teren. That I may sleepe whether I wil or no. Ingratior. Sen. Ingratè pe. pro. Aduerb. Pli. Vnthankefully: vngrately: against ones wfl. Ferre aliquid ingratè. Ta. Not to be wel content: to take vispleasauntly. Non ingratè nominando M. Vatronem. Pli. Willingly naming Varro.

I. Unpleasant, disagreeable (class. in prose and poetry).

A. Of things: bene quae in me fecerunt, ingrata habui, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 30: sin autem ingrata esse sentiam, Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 3: fuit haec oratio non ingrata Gallis. Caes. B. G. 7, 30: ingratam Veneri pone superbiam, Hor. C. 3, 10, 9: labor, Verg. G. 3, 97: jocus, Ov. F. 3, 738: sapor, Col. 7, 8, 7.—

B. Of persons: non ingratus, acceptable, agreeable: Gaetulicus exercitui, Tac. A. 6, 36 (30). —

II. Unthankful, ungrateful.

A. Lit.: ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus qui dissimulat: ingratus qui non reddit: ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est, Sen. Ben. 3, 1: nihil cognovi ingratius, Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2: ingrati animi crimen, id. ib. 9, 2, 2: ingratum esse in aliquem, Liv. 38, 50, 7; Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 93; Sen. Contr. 4, 24, 2: contra aliquem, Dig. 4, 2, 21: vir adversus merita Caesaris ingratissimus, Vell. 2, 69; cf. Val. Max. 5, 3, ext. 2: quia nihil amas, quom ingratum amas, irresponsive, who makes no return, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 46.—

(b). With gen.: salutis, not grateful for his preservation, Verg. A. 10, 666. —

2. Pass., that receives no thanks: ingrata atque inrita esse omnia intellego quae dedi, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 10: donum, id. Truc. 2, 6, 54: umeri, Stat. Th. 1, 700. —

B. Transf., of inanimate things that do not repay the trouble bestowed upon them, ungrateful: ager, that bears nothing, Mart. 10, 47, 4: amicitiae, id. 5, 19, 8: ignosces tamen post, et id ingratum, you will get no thanks for it, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 61: pericla, Verg. A. 7, 425: cubile, id. ib. 12, 144: ingratā ingluvie rem stringere (i. e. quae numquam satiatur, numquam acceptis contenta est), insatiable, Hor. S. 1, 2, 8: ingrato vocem prostituisse foro, Ov. Am. 1, 15, 6: mulier contra patronum suum ingrata, Dig. 4, 2, 21.— Hence, adv.: ingrātē.

1. Unpleasantly, disagreeably: ingrate viridis gemma, Plin. 37, 5, 19, 74: sunt quibus ingrate timida indulgentia servit, Ov. A. A. 2, 435: non ingrate nominando Varrone, not unwillingly, Plin. 18, 3, 5, 23 (al. in grege).—

2. Unthankfully, ungratefully: ingrate nostra facilitate abutuntur, Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 2: aliquid ferre, to receive a thing with unthankfulness, Tac. H. 1, 52: ut sucus qui ingrate his (pomis vitiosis) posset impendi, ad meliora vertatur, Pall. 7, 5.