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congratulating

adj

Etymology

By surface analysis, congratulate + -ing.

Definitions

  1. Congratulatory

    Congratulatory; that is giving congratulations.

    • Mrs. Buckle was delivered of twins. "A pair of Buckles!" "Boys or girls?" inquired a congratulating friend the answer may be supposed.
    • His face grew sadder as the ceremony proceeded, and at last when the bride left the church, surrounded by a congratulating crowd, his eyes assumed the fixed look of a doomed man.
    • His great cause had been won; his client had been honorably acquitted; and there gathered around Mr. Storrs at the Lindell Hotel a congratulating circle, including many eminent members of the St. Louis bar.

  2. Gratifying

    Gratifying; pleasing.

  3. The act by which someone is congratulated

    The act by which someone is congratulated; congratulation.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of congratulate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at congratulating. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at congratulating. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at congratulating

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA