refreshing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, refresh +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/

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• 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.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:

     The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.

   • 2022 June 20, Charles Hugh Smith, The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess‎^[1]:

     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

• Arabic: مُنْعِش m (munʕiš)
• 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, virkistävä
• French: rafraîchissant (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: erfrischend (de)
• Ingrian: siiva
• Italian: rinfrescante (it)
• Japanese: 爽快 (ja) (そうかい、sōkai)
• Macedonian: освежително (osvežitelno)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: rafraîchissant
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forfriskende, (drink) leskende

• Polish: odświeżający, orzeźwiający
• Spanish: refrescante (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ferahlatıcı (tr)
• 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 and gerund of refresh