Invigorating

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Invigorate \In*vig"or*ate\ ([i^]n*v[i^]g"[~e]r*[=a]t), v. t.
     [imp. & p. p. {Invigorated} ([i^]n*v[i^]g"[~e]r*[=a]`t[e^]d);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Invigorating}.] [Pref. in- in + vigor.]
     To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and
     energy to.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless
           fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity.
                                                    --Atterbury.
  
     Syn: To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  invigorating
       adj : imparting strength and vitality; "the invigorating mountain
             air" [ant: {debilitating}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "invigorating":
     activating, analeptic, animating, animative, beneficial, benign,
     bracing, brisk, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chill, chilly,
     constitutional, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy,
     encouraging, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative,
     fresh, glad, gladdening, good, good for, health-enhancing,
     health-preserving, healthful, healthy, heart-warming, heartening,
     hygeian, hygienic, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorative, joyful,
     quickening, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, rejuvenating,
     restorative, reviving, roborant, rousing, salubrious, salutary,
     sanitary, stimulating, stimulative, strengthening, temperate,
     tonic, viable, vitalizing, vivifying, wholesome, zestful, zesty