Usually means: Expressing praise or congratulations formally.
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  1. gratulatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. gratulatory: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gratulatory: Vocabulary.com
  4. gratulatory: Wordnik
  5. gratulatory: Wiktionary
  6. Gratulatory, gratulatory: Dictionary.com
  7. Gratulatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. gratulatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. gratulatory: Rhymezone
  10. Gratulatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. gratulatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. gratulatory: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gratulatory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. gratulatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Gratulatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (archaic) congratulatory

Similar:
congratulatory, felicitous, appreciant, assentatory, gladiatory, gratefull, apprecatory, memorative, bless'd, sanctimonial, more...

Opposite:
condolatory, mournful, sympathetic, commiserating

Types:
congratulatory, more...

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Similar:
congratulatory, felicitous, appreciant, assentatory, gladiatory, gratefull, apprecatory, memorative, bless'd, sanctimonial, more...

Opposite:
condolatory, mournful, sympathetic, commiserating

Types:
congratulatory, more...



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