REFRESHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refreshing mean? 

• REFRESHING (adjective)
  The adjective REFRESHING has 2 senses:

1. imparting vitality and energy

2. pleasantly new or different

  Familiarity information: REFRESHING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFRESHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Imparting vitality and energy

Synonyms:

bracing; brisk; fresh; refreshful; refreshing; tonic

Context example:

the bracing mountain air

Similar:

invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pleasantly new or different

Synonyms:

novel; refreshing

Context example:

common sense of a most refreshing sort

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

 Context examples 

The shade was most refreshing, and Emma found it the pleasantest part of the day.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Ha! ha! ha! ha! Isn't THAT refreshing, my young friend!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is a very refreshing vibration and something you will love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Our opinion was justified, for when after a refreshing sleep of some hours she woke up, she seemed brighter and better than she had been for days.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was so homey and refreshing that I sat down on the floor and read and looked and ate and laughed and cried, in my usual absurd way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An aqueous solution which is most often used for its deodorant, refreshing, or antiseptic effect.

(Mouthwash Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

But I thought it would rather do her good after being stooping among the roses; for there is nothing so refreshing as a walk after a fatigue of that kind; and though the sun was strong, it was not so very hot.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Admiral, after taking two or three refreshing turns about the room with his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came up to Captain Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might be interrupting, thinking only of his own thoughts, began with—If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her daughters.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)