refreshing

refreshing

English

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

refreshing (comparative more refreshing, superlative most refreshing)

1. That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
   • 2022 June 20, Charles Hugh Smith, The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess‎:

     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.

Derived terms

• refreshingly
• refreshingness

Translations

refreshing

Bulgarian: освежителен (bg) (osvežitelen), ободрителен (bg) (obodritelen) Catalan: refrescant Chinese: Cantonese: 清新 (cing1 san1) Mandarin: 清新 (zh) (qīngxīn) Dutch: verfrissend (nl) Esperanto: revigliga Finnish: raikastava French: rafraîchissant (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: erfrischend (de) Italian: rinfrescante (it) Japanese: 爽快 (ja) (そうかい、sōkai) Norman: rafraîchissant Norwegian: Bokmål: forfriskende, (drink) leskende Polish: odświeżający Spanish: refrescante (es) Ukrainian: освіжаючий (osvižajučyj), що освіжає (ščo osvižaje)

Noun

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.

Verb

refreshing

1. present participle of refresh