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congratulated

congratulated is the simple past and past participle of congratulate.

Meaning of congratulate

Verb

congratulate (third-person singular simple present congratulates, present participle congratulating, simple past and past participle congratulated)

  1. To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for
    • Remind me to congratulate Dave and Lisa on their wedding.
  2. (reflexive) To consider oneself fortunate in some matter.
    • I congratulated myself on the success of my plan.

Words formed from congratulated

Questions about congratulated

What is congratulated the simple past and past participle of?
Congratulated is the simple past and past participle of congratulate.

Words near congratulated in the dictionary

  1. congratulable
  2. congratulant
  3. congratulants
  4. congratulary
  5. congratulate
  6. congratulated
  7. congratulates
  8. congratulateth
  9. congratulating
  10. congratulatings
  11. congratulation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: congratulated (page history and authors); congratulate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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