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View synonyms for congratulatory

congratulatory

[ kuhn-grach-uh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-eeor, often, -graj-, kuhng- ]

adjective

  1. expressing or conveying congratulations:

    a congratulatory telegram.



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Other Words From

  • noncon·gratu·la·tory adjective
  • quasi-con·gratu·la·tory adjective
  • uncon·gratu·la·tory adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of congratulatory1

1515–25; < Medieval Latin congrātulātōrius, equivalent to Latin congrātulā ( ) ( congratulate ) + -tōrious -tory 1

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Example Sentences

ERIK: He texted us about a few weeks ago, just to kind of give us a congratulatory text on “Skydive” and the video.

The general reaction among his teammates was congratulatory and warm, but in retrospect surprisingly muted.

Author Gary Shteyngart was even congratulatory: “Mazel Tov, Random Penguin!”

“It was not in my nature to turn the campaign into a constant exercise in self-congratulatory autobiography,” he explained.

The celebrations have been unanimous, just as they have been unanimously self-congratulatory.

Sues saucy, self-congratulatory toss of the head 14 stung her so that she could have cried out.

Lawrence received a congratulatory message from General Schofield, highly praising him.

Every effort was made to obtain congratulatory addresses on the peace from municipal bodies, and money was offered for them.

But this congratulatory strain of the queen of Sheba may be applied to the Christian age, and to "a greater than Solomon."

But it was not a simple congratulatory address that Charles, or his mother, required of his parliament.

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