Compliment and Greeting

Compliment

Compliment noun - An admiring personal remark.

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Greeting and compliment are semantically related in felicitation topic. In some cases you can use "Greeting" instead a noun "Compliment".

Nearby Words: complement, complimented, complimentary, complied, complimenting

Greeting

Greeting noun - An expression of goodwill upon meeting.

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Compliment and greeting are semantically related in courtesy topic. Sometimes you can use "Compliment" instead a noun "Greeting", if it concerns topics such as felicitation.

Nearby Words: greet, greeted

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How words are described

good	good compliment	good greeting
nice	nice compliment	nice greeting
similar	similar compliment	similar greeting
common	common compliment	common greeting
Other adjectives: standard, polite, friendly, single, simple, odd, weird.

Both words in one sentence

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey has the word "station", which is both a greeting and a compliment in the vein of "excellent".

Source: Future Slang
Also inverted with "jailbird," which is considered a friendly greeting among those who had been sent to Luna for criminal sentences; when the exiles begin addressing the native-born Mannie as "jailbird," it's a compliment.

Source: Literature / The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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