What does life-giving mean?
Life-giving means Necessary for life..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Necessary for life..
We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water.
The FDA has "blood on its hands" in its devastatingly slow release of potentially life-giving drugs to people surviving with AIDS and ARC.
Her days were taken up with the life-giving, hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages to feed, clothe and nurture her household.
The systematic, violent overthrow of an ethos of lifegiving by one that placed higher value on the taking of life culminated in the destruction of the Minoan civilization of Crete some four millenia ^([sic]) later.
Use life-giving when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Life-giving means Necessary for life..
Common synonyms include invigorating, vitalizing, vital.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water.
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