Congratulate vs Appreciate - What's the difference?
congratulate | appreciate |
to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for
to be grateful or thankful for.
to view as valuable.
to be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect.
* Lubbock
to increase in value.
* Ramsay
As verbs the difference between congratulate and appreciate
is that congratulate is to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for while appreciate is to be grateful or thankful for.congratulate
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Verb
(congratulat)Derived terms
* congratulable * congratulant * congratulating * congratulation * congratulations * congratulative * congratulator * congratulatory English reporting verbs ----appreciate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(appreciat)- I appreciate your efforts
- You must learn to appreciate time
- To test the power of bees to appreciate color.
- to test the power of bees to appreciate colour
- The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.
- lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money