INVIGORATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invigorating mean? 

• INVIGORATING (adjective)
  The adjective INVIGORATING has 1 sense:

1. imparting strength and vitality

  Familiarity information: INVIGORATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVIGORATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Imparting strength and vitality

Context example:

the invigorating mountain air

Similar:

animating; enlivening (giving spirit and vivacity)

bracing; brisk; fresh; refreshful; refreshing; tonic (imparting vitality and energy)

corroborant (used of a medicine that is strengthening)

exhilarating; stimulating (making lively and cheerful)

life-giving; vitalizing (giving or having the power to give life and spirit)

renewing; restorative; revitalising; revitalizing; reviving (tending to impart new life and vigor to)

Also:

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

Antonym:

debilitating (impairing the strength and vitality)

 Context examples 

“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The invigorating air did them both good, and much exercise worked wholesome changes in minds as well as bodies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This northern air is invigorating and pleasant, so I propose to spend a few days upon your moors, and to occupy my mind as best I may.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But now isn't it, Miss Trotwood, isn't it, David, invigorating, said Mrs. Markleham, mechanically following her with her eyes, to find a man at Doctor Strong's time of life, with the strength of mind to do this kind of thing?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Catherine, though she could not help wondering that with such perfect command of his horse, he should think it necessary to alarm her with a relation of its tricks, congratulated herself sincerely on being under the care of so excellent a coachman; and perceiving that the animal continued to go on in the same quiet manner, without showing the smallest propensity towards any unpleasant vivacity, and (considering its inevitable pace was ten miles an hour) by no means alarmingly fast, gave herself up to all the enjoyment of air and exercise of the most invigorating kind, in a fine mild day of February, with the consciousness of safety.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)