congratulational
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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..."
Etymology
From congratulation + -al.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more congratulational (comparative)
most congratulational (superlative)