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refreshing

Syllables: re·fresh·ing/ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/

refreshing adjective: that refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy. Also the present participle and gerund of refresh.

Adjective

refreshing (comparative more refreshing, superlative most refreshing)

  1. That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
    • 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.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217
    • Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong.2022 June 20, Charles Hugh Smith, The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess
  2. Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
    • The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.2003, John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, page 74

Noun

refreshing (plural refreshings)

  1. The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
    • 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 […]1821, Frederick Butler, A Complete History of the United States of America
  2. That which gives refreshment.

Also used as

refreshing is also the present participle and gerund of refresh.

refreshing meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Nepali and Arabic

refreshing in Tamil

புத்துணர்ச்சி அளிக்கிறது, புத்துணர்ச்சியூட்டும், புத்துணர்வு அளிக்கிறது

refreshing in Kannada

ರಿಫ್ರೆಶ್ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದೆ

refreshing in Nepali

रिफ्रेशिंग

refreshing in Arabic

refreshing
مُنْعِش munʕiš

Examples of refreshing in a sentence

  • After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.
  • An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion.
  • The chilled beer was refreshing on the hot day.

All 40 example sentences with refreshing

Forms of refreshing

Adjective
comparativemore refreshing
superlativemost refreshing
Noun
pluralrefreshings

Origin of refreshing

By surface analysis, refresh + -ing.

Words formed from refreshing

Phrases with refreshing

Questions about refreshing

What does refreshing mean?
Refreshing means that refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
What is refreshing in Tamil?
Refreshing in Tamil is புத்துணர்ச்சி அளிக்கிறது, புத்துணர்ச்சியூட்டும், புத்துணர்வு அளிக்கிறது. See Refreshing meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is refreshing?
Refreshing can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce refreshing?
Refreshing is pronounced /ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/.

Words near refreshing in the dictionary

  1. refreshes
  2. refreshes someone's memory
  3. refreshful
  4. refreshfully
  5. refreshin'
  6. refreshing
  7. refreshing someone's memory
  8. refreshingly
  9. refreshingness
  10. refreshings
  11. refreshment

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: refreshing (page history and authors); refreshing (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); refreshing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); refreshing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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