FELICITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does felicitate mean? 

• FELICITATE (verb)
  The verb FELICITATE has 1 sense:

1. express congratulations

  Familiarity information: FELICITATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELICITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they felicitate    ... he / she / it felicitates   
Past simple: felicitated   
Past participle: felicitated   
-ing form: felicitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express congratulations

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

congratulate; felicitate

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))