FELICITATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they felicitate ... he / she / it felicitates

Past simple: felicitated

Past participle: felicitated

-ing form: felicitating

Meaning:

Express congratulations

Synonyms:

congratulate; felicitate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "felicitate" is one way to...):

bid; wish (invoke upon)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

felicitation (the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration)

felicitation ((usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another)

felicity (pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression))