Congratulatory Words & Encouraging Phrases

Just a word or two

These are congratulatory words and short encouragements people use in emails, texts, cards, and conversations to celebrate achievements. You'll find formal and casual options for friends, colleagues, clients, and loved ones.

Aces! Alright!

Alright! Alright! Alright!

Amazing! Attaboy! Attagirl!

Awesome, Awesome's what you are.

You're a friggin' superstar!

Awesomesauce!

Back of the Net! Bada bing Bada boom! Bang on! Beautiful! The Bees Knees. Bingo/It's a Bingo! Bitchin'! Bloody Good! Bodacious! Boffo! Bonza! Boom! "BOOM" goes the dynamite! Boom shacka lacka! Boy howdy! Booyah! Booyashaka! Booyaow! Boosh! Brava!/Bravo! Brill! Brilliant! Bullseye! Bully! Bully for you!

Capital! Champion! Choice!

Congratulations! Congrats! Gratz!

Cool beans! Cowabunga! Cowabunga Dude! Crackerjack!

Delightful! Decent. Dude! Duuuuuuude!

How Delightful!

Epic! Excellent! Excelsior! (Higher) Exemplary! Exquisite.

Faaabulous! Fabulous! Fan-diddly-dandy! Fan-freakin'-tastic! Fantabuloso! Fantasterbastic! Fantastic! Fantastical! Fantastico! Far out! Felicitations! For Real.

Oh Frabjous day;

Callooh Calay!

Gang busters! Glorious! Gnarly! Good Job! Good to hear! Good for you! Good on ya, mate. Good on you! Great! Great news!

HELL YEAH!!!!! High 5! Hot diggity dog! Hooah! Huzzah!

Impressive! Incredible!

Jackpot! Jolly good! Joyous! Jubilation!

For you're a jolly good fellow/female!

KABOOM! Ka-POW!!! Kewl! Killed it!

Laudatory. Let loose the joy! Let's go! Legendary! Lovely,

Magic. Magical. Magnificent! Marvellous! Masterful! Mazel Tov! Minti! Most triumphant!

Neat! Nice. Nifty! Noice, Nothing but net! Not too bad. Not too shabby.

Outstanding! Out-Standing!

Palmary. Perfect! Phantasmagorical! Phenomenal! Premium! Prime' Pterrific!

Play it again Sam.

Way to carpe that diem!

Quapla! (Klingon for "Success!")

Rad. Radical!

Righteous! Right on! Ripping! Rip-snorting!

SCORE! Sick! SHAZAM! Shiny! Smashing! Solid! Spectacular! Splendid! Splendiferous! Stellar! Sterling! Strong work! Super! Super great! Superlative! Swell! Sweet! Stupendous! Sublime, Success! Supercalafragulisticexpealidocious! Superlative!

Tally-ho! Terrific! Tip-top! Top drawer, my good man/woman! Totally Tubular! Tremendous! Triumphant!

Uplifting.

Very Nice,

Way to go! Well done! Well done you! Well played!

Well shut my mouth!

Wicked!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Whoop, there it is! Wonderful! Wondermuffin! Wondrous! Wow! Wowsers! Wow wow wow! Wowie! Wunderbar!

Yabba Dabba Doo! YEAH BABY!!!!!! Yee-haw! Yeeeeeee Haaawwwwwwwwww! Yessir. Yes'm. Yippee-ki-yay! Yippee-yi-yo-ki-yay! You betcha! You rock!

Zippety do da! Zowie!

You're the chef's kiss!

Adjectives

"You're / that's ..."

A-1, accomplished, aces, admirable, advanced, A-OK, beautiful, best ever, brilliant, capital, cat's pajamas, certified, champion charming, choice, choicest, classy, commendable, cool, copacetic, crackerjack, cutting-edge, dazzling, delightful, deserving, distinctive, distinguished, dream, epinician, estimable, excellent, exceptional, exemplary, expert, exquisite, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, fine, finest, first, first-class, first-rate, foremost, good, graceful, grand, great, greatest, handsome, higher, hortative/hortatory, ideal, important, incomparable, invaluable, keen, laudable, leading, leading-edge, liberal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, masterful, masterly, meritable, meritorious, neat, nice, notable, noted, out of sight, out of this world, outstanding, peachy, peerless, pleasing, praiseworthy, precocious, premium, priceless, prime, progressive, radical, rare, refined resplendent, select, skillful, solid, splendid, state-of-the-art, sterling, striking, stunning, sublime, super, superb, super-duper, superior, superlative, supreme, tiptop, top-notch, terrific, transcendent, tremendous, valuable, virtuoso, well-formed, wicked, wonderful, world-class, worthy, zero cool

Kudus!

Cheers Cheers! Kudos!

Happy adjectives

"We feel ..."

Amiable, Ameliorative, Amused, Amusing, Ascendant, Auspicious, Beatific, Blissful, Blythe, Blythesome, Boisterous, Bonzer, Brilliant, Buoyant, Carefree, Celebratory, Cheerful, Cheery, Childlike, Chipper, Cock-a-hoop, Cohortative, Coltish, Confelicitous, Content, Contented, Couthie, Crackerjack, Dapatical, Delightful, Delighted, Diverted, Droll, Easygoing, Effulgent, Elated, Enjoyable, Eudaemonistic, Euphoric, Excelsior, Exhilarated, Exuberant, Fain, Fantastic, Festal, Festive, Frabjous, Free, Frolicsome, Fulgent, Gelastic, Gelogenic, Glad, Gleeful, Good, Good-humoured, Good-natured, Grateful, Gratified, Happy, Happy-go-lucky, Harmonic/Harmonious, Heartsome, Humorous, In a good mood, In good spirits, Insouciant, Jiggish, Jocose, Jocoserious, Jocular, Jolif, Jolly, Jovial, Joyful, Joyous, Jubilant, Lepid, Liefly, Light, Light-hearted, Lively, Ludibund, Ludic, Lusory, Mabsoot, Merry, Mirthful, Optimistic, Overjoyed, Panglossian, Peppy, Perky, Playful, Pleasant, Pleased, Positive, Profulgent, Radiant, Rejuvenated, Rejuvenescent, Relaxed, Reviviscent, Rhapsodic, Risible, Rollicking, Sanguine, Satisfied, Shining, Slamin', Sportive, Sprightly, Sunny, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Thrilled, Thrilling, Tickled, Twitterpated, Uber, Upbeat, Upbuilding, Uplifted, Uplifting, Vegete, Vibrant, Vitative, Vivacious, Waggish, Weleful, Welsome, Whimsical, Wonderful, Zoetic

Nouns, verbs, and exclamations

aah!, acclaim, acclamation, accolade, ace, acknowledgment, admiration, adulation, applause, appreciation, approval, asset, attraction, attractive, avant-garde, award, benefit, best wishes, big hand, blessing, boon, breakthrough, bring down the house, celebration, cheering, cheers, cheers!, clapping, commendation, compliment, compliments, confirmation, congrats, congratulate, congratulation, cool!, credit, distinction, encomium, encouragement, endorsement, esteem, exaltation, excellence, excellent!, extolment, favour, feather in your cap, felicitate, felicitation, felicitations, good going, good thing, good wishes, good work, gramercy, gratulation/gratulations, hail, hallelujah!, hats off, Hip-hip, hooray!, homage, honour, hooray!, hurrah, high 5! hurray! huzzah!, I'm impressed/how very impressive, joy!, kudo, kudos!, laud, laudation, laurels, master, mastery, merit, notability, notice, oooo!, ovation, panegyric, pat on the back, plaudits, points, praise, rave, recognition, regard, respects, righteous, rooting, salute, sanction, sentiment, standing ovation, ta-da!, tender one's congratulations, three cheers, tribute, value, way to go, well done!, whee!, woo-hoo! wow!, yay! yes!, yippy! you did it!, you rock!