refreshing - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
By surface analysis, refresh + -ing.
refreshing (comparative more refreshing, superlative most refreshing)
- That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
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.
2022 June 20, Charles Hugh Smith, The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess[1]:
Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong.
- Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
2003, John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, page 74:
The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.
refreshing
- Arabic: مُنْعِش m (munʕiš)
- Bulgarian: освежителен (bg) (osvežitelen), ободрителен (bg) (obodritelen)
- Catalan: refrescant
- Chinese:
- Dutch: verfrissend (nl)
- Esperanto: revigliga
- Finnish: raikastava, virkistävä
- French: rafraîchissant (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: erfrischend (de)
- Ingrian: siiva
- Italian: rinfrescante (it)
- Japanese: 爽快 (ja) (そうかい、sōkai)
- Macedonian: освежително (osvežitelno)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: rafraîchissant
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forfriskende, (drink) leskende
- Polish: odświeżający, orzeźwiający
- Spanish: refrescante (es)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: ferahlatıcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: освіжаючий (osvižajučyj), що освіжає (ščo osvižaje)
refreshing (plural refreshings)
- The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
1821, Frederick Butler, A Complete History of the United States of America:
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 […]
- That which gives refreshment.
refreshing
- present participle and gerund of refresh