Refreshing

/ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy..

Definitions by Sense

1. That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
2. Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
3. The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
4. That which gives refreshment.
5. present participle and gerund of refresh

Example Sentences

The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.

Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong.

The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.

Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold […]

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• more refreshing
• most refreshing
• refreshings

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