Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section III. Sympathetic Affections
4. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections

917. Ingratitude.

   NOUN:INGRATITUDE, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness.
  “benefits forgot” [As You Like It]; thankless task, thankless office.
   VERB:BE UNGRATEFUL &c. adj.; feel no obligation, owe one no thanks, forget benefits; look a gift horse in the mouth.
   ADJECTIVE:UNGRATEFUL, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits.
  forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded; ill-requited; ill-rewarded.
   INTERJECTION:thank you for nothing! “et tu Brute!” [Julius Cæsar].    QUOTATIONS:

1. Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend.—Lear
2. This was the most unkindest cut of all.—Julius Cæsar
3. Hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning.—Wordsworth