refreshing - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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By surface analysis, refresh +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃɪŋ
• Hyphenation: re‧fresh‧ing

refreshing (comparative more refreshing, superlative most refreshing)

1. 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.

2. 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.

• refreshingly
• refreshingness

refreshing (plural refreshings)

1. 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 […]

2. That which gives refreshment.

refreshing

1. present participle and gerund of refresh