Definition of Gratulatory

1. Adjective. Expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune. "A gratulatory address"

Exact synonyms: Congratulatory
Similar to: Felicitous
Derivative terms: Congratulate, Congratulate, Congratulate, Congratulate

Definition of Gratulatory

1. a. Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory.

Definition of Gratulatory

1. Adjective. (archaic) congratulatory ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gratulatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gratulatory

grattoirs
gratuities
gratuitious
gratuitous
gratuitous inducer
gratuitously
gratuitousness
gratuity
gratulate
gratulated
gratulates
gratulating
gratulation
gratulations
gratulatory (current term)
gratz
graunch
graunched
graunches
graunching
graunt
graunted
grauntest
graunteth
graunting
graunts
graupel
graupels
grauwacke

Literary usage of Gratulatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... however, of the pleasure which unambitious minds may derive from humble sources, that the poet wrote upon this occasion aself-gratulatory ode, ..."

2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"a self-gratulatory ode, in which he expresses quite as bounding a transport at his accession to a salary of sixpence a day as Napoleon could have done at ..."

3. History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge by Thomas Baker (1869)
"'A gratulatory Letter to the Lady Bowes for books which shoe gave to the College.' p. 369. 'You knowe, Madame, the weake Lungs of an Eccho which re- ..."

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