uncongratulating
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + congratulating.
Adjective
edituncongratulating (not comparable)
- Not offering congratulations.
- 1824, Felix Fontaine, The Christian Martyr: A Tale of the First Century for Youth, page 217:
- By the obscurity of a twinkling lamp, and amidst a handful of despised outcasts, already marked out and consigned to death, and in the uncongratulating silence of the midnight hour, the mighty step was accomplished.