life-giving
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪfˌɡɪvɪŋ/
- The garden was filled with life-giving plants that nourished the soil and the people who tended to it.
- life-giving force
- life-giving power
- life-giving breath
There is something redemptive and life giving about asking a better question.
- There is something redemptive and life giving about asking a better question.
- It's just a planet, our life giving planet.
- Like water is the softest, most gentle, life giving, pliable, beautiful thing, but it's also can be a tsunami.
- It's a direct form of parasitism upon the human race involved through something that appears to be life giving.
- Freedom from worn out notions of exceptionalism and freedom for life giving collaborations across boundaries and borders.
- There's been something so freeing and life giving and just something happening, like having an idea and then it can just be birthed and given to the world.
- It's constant and unconditional and it's life giving.
- It's a beautiful life giving perfect God.
- And it becomes this life giving process of I'm going to start doing this healthy, robust life giving thing.
Examples
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Where would you get that life-giving water?
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The magnificent nut groves, so sought-after by Scar, thrive here because of the rich soil, and another magic ingredient, life-giving water.
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Our appetite is one of our life giving drives.
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There is something redemptive and life giving about asking a better question.
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Birth is now a family event, a life-giving event, which fathers attend as well as mothers.
Academic text (1997) -
Ecosystems and all species of biodiversity are the life-giving elements of the Earth.
Blog text (17) -
Respect for the medicinal properties of breast milk reflected faith in its power as a life-giving force.
Academic text (1994) -
Rainstorms on the African savanna are life-giving and life-changing events.
Academic text (2009) -
And a revolutionary new form of ocean desalinization... that will bring life-giving water to the driest of deserts.
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Drinking fresh water is essential for a healthy body; it is truly life-giving.
Synonyms
Needed for a person to stay alive
Make a person or thing feel more energetic
How Life-Giving
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word life-giving comes from the simple parts life and giving, so it literally means 'giving life' or helping things stay alive. So, we call rain, sun, or clean water life-giving because they feed and keep plants and animals alive.