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Congratulate vs Gratulate - What's the difference?

congratulate | gratulate |

Gratulate is a alternative form of congratulate.



As verbs the difference between congratulate and gratulate

is that congratulate is to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for while gratulate is to congratulate.

As an adjective gratulate is

worthy of gratulation.

congratulate

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Verb

(congratulat)
  • to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for

    • Derived terms

    * congratulable * congratulant * congratulating * congratulation * congratulations * congratulative * congratulator * congratulatory English reporting verbs ----

    gratulate

    English

    Verb

    (gratulat)
  • (archaic) to congratulate
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (archaic) to greet, welcome, salute
  • * 1593 , , IV. i. 10:
    • To gratulate the gentle princes there.
  • * 19th century , , Two Sonnets :
  • *:Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain
  • *:Wild discords sadder than Grief's saddest tune
  • *:As if an owl with his harsh screech should strain
  • *:To over-gratulate a thrush of June

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Worthy of gratulation.
  • * 1604 , , V. i. 526:
    • There's more behind that is more gratulate .
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