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ἀχάριστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀχάριστος ἀχάριστη ἀχάριστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + χαριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xari/zomai

Sense

  1. ungracious, unpleasant, unpleasing, without grace or charms
  2. ungracious, unfavourable
  3. ungrateful, thankless
  4. with an ill-will, thanks are wanting

Examples

  • οὗ τί γένοιτ’ ἂν ἀχαριστότερον, σωθέντα δι’ ἐμὲ καὶ τηλικοῦτον κίνδυνον διαπεφευγότα τοῖσ τοιούτοισ εὐθὺσ ἀμείβεσθαι, τῆσ θεραπείασ ἐκείνησ οὐδένα, λόγον ἔχοντα, ἀλλ’ οὕτω ῥᾳδίωσ ἐπιλελῆσθαι καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐρημίαν ἐλαύνειν τὸν ἐφησθέντ’ ἂν δικαίωσ ἐφ’ οἷσ ἀδίκωσ ἐξεβέβλητο, μὴ μόνον δ’ οὐ ^ μνησικακήσαντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ σώσαντα καὶ σωφρονεῖν παρασκευάσαντα; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 13:5)
  • ἓν μέντοι τῶν σοὶ προσηκόντων, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἐπιμελημάτων ἴσωσ ἀχαριστότερον δόξει εἶναι, ὅτι, ὃσ ἂν κάμνῃ τῶν οἰκετῶν, τούτων σοι ἐπιμελητέον πάντων ὅπωσ θεραπεύηται. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 38:1)

Synonyms

  1. ungracious

  2. ungracious

  3. ungrateful

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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