Condole vs Congratulations - What's the difference?
condole | congratulations |
To grieve.
To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy.
* Sir W. Temple
Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
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As a verb condole
is to grieve.As an interjection congratulations is
expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.As a noun congratulations is
.condole
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.
Anagrams
* ----congratulations
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}