What does congratulational mean?
Congratulational means Relating to congratulation..
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Relating to congratulation..
A while back on this page we made a congratulational note to the effect that we had never in any student council election campaign heard a single candidate “smear” his opponent, a practice that is common in adult political campaigns.
On May 8, 1951, the Board of Directors adopted two resolutions which were congratulational messages to the National Bureau of Standards and the British Standards Institution on their 50th anniversary.
On such occasions it customary for someone like me to say a few things informational, a few things inspirational, and perhaps a few things “congratulational.”
Aside from the oh-what-a-good-boy-am-I self congratulational aspect of the statement, it is worth noting that this is being done at the age of 49, without a prior high school education and with an evaluation at the age of eleven that determined me to be borderline retarded.
President Roh Moo-hyun, in his congratulational address on the National Independence Day, stressed upon the realization of a self-defense policy within 10 years.
Applause is a bit too congratulational if you ask me... Like saying.. "well done!! you died!!!"... The other alternative would be to announce over the PA system and display a message of condolence...
Use congratulational when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Congratulational means Relating to congratulation..
Common synonyms include congratulationary, congratulatory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A while back on this page we made a congratulational note to the effect that we had never in any student council election campaign heard a single candidate “smear” his opponent, a practice that is common in adult political campaigns.
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