Word Meanings - UNGRATEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful. South. 2. Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear. -- Un*grate"ful*ly, adv.
Additional info about word: UNGRATEFUL
1. Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful. South. 2. Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear. -- Un*grate"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grate"ful*ness, n.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - SOUTHWEST
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - INGRATEFUL
1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness, - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - KINDNESS
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts - RETURNLESS
Admitting no return. Chapman. - HARSH
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - UNACCEPTABLE
Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un`ac*cept"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ac*cept"a*bly, adv. - GRATE
1. A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak. 2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - SOUTHERN
A Southerner. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - REGRATE
To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.