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invigorating
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stimulating |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, bracing, brisk, charged, energizing, exhilarating, exhilarative, fascinating, fresh, healthful, high*, hyper, interesting, lively, quickening, refreshing, rejuvenating, rejuvenative, restorative, salubrious, tonic, uplifting, vitalizing |
| Antonyms: | boring, depressing, dull, enervating, unstimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bracing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brisk; exhilarating |
| Synonyms: | animating, chilly, cool, crisp, energizing, exhilarative, fortifying, fresh, invigorating, lively, quickening, refreshing, restorative, reviving, rousing, stimulating, stimulative, tonic, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | debilitating, exhausting, tiring |
| Main Entry: | brisk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chilly, refreshing (weather) |
| Synonyms: | biting, bracing, crisp, exhilarating, fresh, invigorating, keen, nippy, sharp, snappy, stimulating |
| Antonyms: | temperate, warm |
| Main Entry: | comforting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheering |
| Synonyms: | abating, allaying, alleviating, analeptic, assuaging, consolatory, consoling, curing, encouraging, freeing, health-giving, heart-warming, inspiriting, invigorating, lightening, mitigating, reassuring, refreshing, relieving, remedying, restoring, revitalizing, revivifying, softening, solacing, soothing, succoring, sustaining, tranquilizing, upholding, warming |
| Antonyms: | aggravating, depressing, dispiriting, distressing, disturbing, irritating, upsetting, worrying |
| Main Entry: | cordial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, sociable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, buddy-buddy, cheerful, clubby, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heart-to-heart, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy, polite, red-carpet, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, welcoming, wholehearted |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, uncordial, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | crisp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, chilly |
| Synonyms: | bracing, brisk, clear, cloudless, invigorating, refreshing, stimulating |
| Antonyms: | temperate, warm |
| Main Entry: | curative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, health-giving |
| Synonyms: | alleviative, beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, pick-me-up, remedial, remedying, restorative, salutary, sanative, shot in the arm, therapeutic, tonic, vulnerary, what the doctor ordered, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | harmful, hurting, injurious, painful |
| Main Entry: | exhilarating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stimulating, cheering |
| Synonyms: | animating, animative, bracing, breathtaking, electric, elevating, enlivening, exalting, exciting, exhilarant, exhilarative, exhilaratory, eye-popping, gladdening, inspiring, inspiriting, intoxicating, invigorating, quickening, rousing, stimulative, stirring, thrilling, tonic, uplifting, vitalizing |
| Antonyms: | agitating, boring, depressing, discouraging, upsetting, worrying |
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | refreshing to the senses |
| Synonyms: | bracing, bright, brisk, clean, clear, colorful, cool, crisp, definite, fair, invigorating, not stale, pure, quick, sharp, spanking, sparkling, stiff, stimulating, sweet, uncontaminated, unpolluted, vivid |
| Antonyms: | stale, tired |
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