gratulatory

Examples

• All

• The manager sent a gratulatory email to the team after they successfully completed the project.

• Her gratulatory words made him feel appreciated for his hard work.

• Sometimes I thought she viewed me as a rival for her husband's affections, though reflecting further, I rejected this as altogether too egotistical and self-gratulatory.

  Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

C

complimentary

vsgratulatory

18 4.2

Saying good things about someone to show you admire them

is celebratory, aimed at someone's success rather than polite praise

C

congratulatory

vsgratulatory

14 4.1

Showing praise and happiness for someone's success or good news

is the same meaning but differs only in form or spelling

W

well-wishing

vsgratulatory

3.7

Showing kind feelings for another person's happiness or success

is used for praise at a particular success rather than general good wishes

P

praiseful

vsgratulatory

6.6

Showing approval by saying good things about someone or their work

is narrower, aimed at praising a particular achievement or good fortune

C

commendatory

vsgratulatory

• Literature

7.5

Showing praise for someone or something

focuses more on celebrating success than offering general approval

A

approbatory

vsgratulatory

• Formal

8.9

Showing approval or praise for something

is more celebratory and personal than neutral approval

A

approbative

vsgratulatory

• Formal

8.8

Showing praise or approval

focuses on celebration of success rather than formal approval

G

gushing

vsgratulatory

6.6

Giving praise in a way that sounds too excited and not honest

expresses sincere congratulations without an excessive or effusive tone

E

encomiastic

vsgratulatory

• Formal

9.9

Expressing strong praise, often in formal language

is more about personal celebration than ornate formal praise

E

eulogistic

vsgratulatory

• Formal

8.9

Being full of praise for someone, often in a formal way

is more private and directly focused on celebrating a person's success

P

panegyrical

vsgratulatory

• Formal

9.9

Giving very strong praise in a formal speech or writing

is simpler and focused on praising a person's success personally

How Congratulatory

enthusiastic

175 2.7

gratulatory

8.1

warm

280 1.0

polite

329 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology