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celebrating

ADJECTIVE
complimentary
Synonyms
STRONGEST
appreciative congratulatory polite respectful
WEAK
adulatory approbative approbatory approving commendatory courtly encomiastic encomiastical eulogistic fair-spoken fawning highly favorable honeyed honoring laudatory panegyrical plauditory praiseful sycophantic unctuous well-wishing with high praise with highest recommendation
Antonyms
STRONGEST
unmannerly
WEAK
blaming censuring critical denouncing disparaging for sale insulting reproachful unflattering
ADJECTIVE
jubilant
Synonyms
STRONGEST
elated euphoric excited exuberant exultant glad joyous overjoyed pleased triumphal triumphant
WEAK
doing handsprings enraptured exulting flipping flying gleeful rejoicing rhapsodic thrilled tickled
Antonyms
STRONGEST
depressed discouraged sad sorrowful unexcited unhappy
NOUN
remembering
Synonyms
STRONG
commemorating memorializing recollecting recollection reliving reminiscence reminiscing
WEAK
bringing back looking back thinking back thinking of
Antonyms
WEAK
forgetting overlooking

Example Sentences

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“I have presided over 28 commencements as a president and dean, and those ceremonies are about celebrating the graduates and their supporters,” Schapiro wrote in a letter declining the speech.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

I met a mom-and-daughter celebrating the mom’s 60th birthday in Hawaii.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Beloved broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough is celebrating his 100th birthday.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Thankfully, my parents and I consider baseball our favorite sport, and on that game day, we will be celebrating my brother’s birthday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

While the others at the scene were celebrating the removal of the boulders, Stais had a disturbing thought.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler