adjective
- Expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune.
- usage: "a congratulatory telegram"; "the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent"; "a gratulatory address"
- synonyms: gratulatory
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| MLA | WordNet. "congratulatory" 23 October 2010. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/congratulatory/definitions/1171231> |