fortifying

ADJECTIVE

bracing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

invigorating refreshing

STRONG

animating chilly cool crisp energizing quickening restorative reviving rousing stimulating tonic

WEAK

exhilarative fresh lively stimulative vigorous

Antonyms

STRONG

friendly hot responsive temperate warm

WEAK

debilitating exhausting tiring

ADJECTIVE

hopeful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cheerful encouraging exciting favorable fortunate good gracious likely pleasant probable reasonable reassuring rosy

STRONG

cheering fair fine fit halcyon pleasing rousing stirring uplifting

WEAK

advantageous arousing beneficial bright conducive convenient elating enlivening expeditious flattering golden heartening helpful inspiring inspiriting lucky opportune promiseful propitious providential roseate suitable sunny timely well-timed

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disagreeable hateful implausible mean nasty unlikely unpleasant unpromising

STRONG

cloudy dark rainy stormy

WEAK

gloomy hopeless inauspicious pointless

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Nearly as many said they were fortifying the grid against severe weather.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Pointedly, there was Timothy Snyder’s tidy pocket-sized handbook “On Tyranny” filled with 20 short but fortifying chapters of practical wisdom like “Do not obey in advance,” “Defend institutions” and “Believe in truth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025

In his 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Kennedy defines this as “preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses.”

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

One of the newest members of NATO, Finland, is fortifying a portion of its 800-mile border with Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

We continued our solemn work of fortifying against invasion.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

fortifying

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