Congratulate vs Encourage - What's the difference?
congratulate | encourage |
to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
As verbs the difference between congratulate and encourage
is that congratulate is to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for while encourage is .congratulate
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Verb
(congratulat)Derived terms
* congratulable * congratulant * congratulating * congratulation * congratulations * congratulative * congratulator * congratulatory English reporting verbs ----encourage
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Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed