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Felicitate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To offer congratulations to: "I felicitate you on your memory, sir” ( John Fowles).

v. Archaic To make happy.

adj. Obsolete Made happy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To congratulate.

adj. Made very happy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Made very happy.

v. To make very happy; to delight.

v. To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make happy.

To congratulate; compliment upon a happy event: as to felicitate a friend on his good fortune.

Synonyms Congratulate, Felicitate. See congratulation.

Made happy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. express congratulations

Word Usage

"Undeterred by a court verdict on March 30 sentencingfive members of a family to death for honour killing, the khaps are collecting money to "felicitate" and support the convicts 'relatives."

Verb Form

felicitated felicitates felicitating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

wish bid

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

congratulate