uncongratulating

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ congratulating.

Adjective

uncongratulating (not comparable)

1. 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.