| Congratulatory (a.) Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter. Thesaurus Entries acclamatory, admiring, adulatory, appreciative, approbatory, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, charitable, commendatory, congratulational, congratulatory, costless, courtierly, courtly, eleemosynary, encomiastic, eulogistic, expenseless, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, for free, for love, for nothing, free, free as air, free for nothing, free gratis, free of charge, free of cost, freebie, fulsome, giftlike, given, gratis, gratuitous, gratulant, gratulatory, gushing, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, laudatory, mealymouthed, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on the house, panegyric, panegyrical, regardful, respectful, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, sycophantic, unbought, unctuous, unpaid-for, untaxed, wheedling, without charge | ![]() |