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ἄχα^ρις , ὁ, ἡ, ἄχαρι, τό, gen. ιτος, dat.
A.“ἀχάρι” Hdt.1.41 codd.:—without grace or charm, “συμπόσιον γίνεται οὐκ ἄχαρι” Thgn.496, cf. 1236; of an immature girl, Sapph.34.
2. unpleasant, disagreeable, “οὐδὲν ἄ. πείσεται” Hdt.2.141, cf. 6.9; “πρός τινος” 8.143; “οὐδὲν ἄ. παριδεῖν τινι” 1.38,108; “ἐνδιδόναι οὐδὲν ἄ.” 7.52; esp. as euphem. for a grievous calamity, “ἄ. συμφορή” 1.41, 7.190; “τὸ τέλος σφι ἐγένετο ἄ.” 8.13; [“βίος] οὐκ ἄ. εἰς τὴν τριβήν” Ar.Av.156.
II. ungracious, thankless, ἄ. τιμή a thankless office, Hdt.7.36; χάρις ἄχαρις graceless grace, thankless favour, A.Pr.545 (lyr.), Ag.1545 (lyr.); “κακῆς γυναικὸς χάριν ἄχαριν ἀπώλετο” E.IT566.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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