Synonyms for refreshing
rɪˈfrɛʃ ɪŋre·fresh·ing

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1. refreshing

   Agreeable refers to whatever gives a mild degree of pleasure; as, an agreeable perfume. Acceptable indicates a thing to be worthy of acceptance; as, an acceptable offering. Grateful is stronger than agreeable or gratifying, indicating whatever awakens a feeling akin to gratitude. A pleasant face and pleasing manners arouse pleasurable sensations, and make the possessor an agreeable companion; if possessed of intelligence, vivacity, and goodness, such a person's society will be delightful. Criminals may find each other's company congenial, but scarcely delightful. Satisfying denotes anything that is received with calm acquiescence, as substantial food, or established truth. That is welcome which is received with joyful heartiness; as, welcome tidings. Compare BEAUTIFUL; CHARMING; DELICIOUS.

   Synonyms:
   acceptable, agreeable, congenial, delicious, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcome

   Antonyms:
   depressing, disappointing, distressing, hateful, horrible, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, saddening, woful, wretched

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1. bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonicadjective

   imparting vitality and energy

   "the bracing mountain air"

   Synonyms:
   tonic, spanking, bracing, wise, refreshful, lively, fresh, new, snappy, novel, brisk, tonal, smart, reinvigorated, unfermented, accented, impertinent, sweet, unused, saucy, merry, clean, sassy, impudent, refreshed, invigorated, zippy, rattling, overbold, alert

   Antonyms:
   old, debilitating

2. novel, refreshingadjective

   pleasantly new or different

   "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

   Synonyms:
   tonic, refreshful, novel, bracing, new, brisk, fresh

   Antonyms:
   old, debilitating

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1. refreshingadjective

   Synonyms:
   reviving, invigorating, grateful, pleasant, comfortable

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1. refreshingadjective

   Synonyms:
   reviving, reanimating, cooling, reinvigorating, refective

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1. List of paraphrases for "refreshing":

   refresh, update, bracing, updating, upgrade, comforting, upgrading, reassuring

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1. G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown:

   The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

2. Mindy Kaling:

   The fact that the characters do not seem to have these racial boundaries. ... was really refreshing.

3. Ju Eun-song:

   It is so refreshing and stress-relieving to finally be out, as we wrap up social distancing, we're at a stage where people are getting used to daily life distancing.

4. Halide Alagoz:

   At the moment were refreshing our approach and framework around sustainability.

5. Keith Strobelt:

   It could be that several hundred of our members will back Trump, a lot find him refreshing. He says a lot of things they say around their dinner tables.