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restful

restful

17 1.8
Causes you to feel calm and ready to rest
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɛstfəl/
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  • The soft music and dim lights created a restful atmosphere in the room.
  • restful sleep

Death was the most restful, peaceful place that I had.

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Examples

  • After your long trip, I just thought dining in private would be more restful.

  • Every day, make a quiet, restful place for twenty minutes.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • But there was something very restful about them.

  • Did you have a restful sleep last night?

  • - Oh, very restful, very quiet.

  • I will turn back around maybe after I have had a restful weekend.

    Academic text (1995)
  • And I had the most restful, peaceful night of sleep in recent memory.

  • I find it very restful because it goes along with my idea of meditation.

    Academic text (2006)
  • There I live, and there I hear from day to day the low hum of restful life.

    Academic text (2002)
  • You'll see he'll have a restful night's sleep.

Synonyms

comfortable
vsrestful
494 1.0

Not feeling pain or physical discomfort

emphasizes promoting rest and renewed energy rather than only physical comfort
relaxing
vsrestful
47 1.0

Making you feel calm and comfortable

leans more toward inducing rest and leaving you refreshed rather than just calm
tranquil
vsrestful
27 4.6

Calm and peaceful without noise or movement

centres more on encouraging rest and a refreshed feeling rather than mere calm
reposeful
vsrestful
  • Literature
7.1

Calm and peaceful, making you feel relaxed and rested

is more about promoting rest and leaving you feeling refreshed
restitutive
vsrestful
7.9

Making someone feel healthy and strong again

focuses more narrowly on causing rest and refreshment rather than healing

Antonyms

167 2.8

Making you feel very worried or nervous

110 3.0

Not able to relax and stay still because of worry or boredom

92 3.2

To make you feel very tired

How Restful

restful
17 1.8
relaxing
47 1.0
soothing
81 2.9
calming
6 2.6

Surface Forms

restful positive
restfuller comparative
restfullest superlative

Morphology

restful = rest (transparent) = rest + ful

The word 'restful' is transparently derived from 'rest' with the suffix '-ful' indicating full of or promoting rest.

Etymology

Restful comes from rest ('stop, relax') and the ending -ful ('full of'), so something restful is 'full of rest' and helps you feel calm and refreshed.