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restorative

restorative

14 5.4
Helping someone feel better and stronger
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈstɔːrətɪv/
translation icon : restaurador
  • It is restorative and nourishing to me to take that on.
  • restorative treatment
  • restorative quality
  • restorative power

So that's the like the deeply restorative sleep that cleans the brain.

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Examples

  • It can be peaceful, restorative, and even empowering.

  • But literature, art, the creative and restorative things that man is capable of can still enhance life.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • And this is the beginning of the restorative process.

  • But perhaps love, the restorative power of love, family love... will save me.

  • There are many such houses in the town, for it was once famous for its restorative climate.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • At the very least, the bread was thought to have restorative properties.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Finally, the fourth kind of truth is healing and restorative truth.

    Academic text (2006)
  • First they go into what we would call deep sleep, a period of deep restorative sleep where the body is trying to regain its energies.

  • And in this crazy, frenetic, overstimulated, stressful modern world, the need for deep, restorative sleep is even greater.

  • After a long week, I find a walk in nature to be incredibly restorative and calming.

Synonyms

therapeutic
vsrestorative
87 5.2

Helping a person feel better physically or mentally

is about making someone feel better generally, not only medical care
rehabilitative
vsrestorative
3 6.4

Helping a person get better and live normally after illness, injury, addiction, or prison

is more general, not limited to long recovery processes
recuperative
vsrestorative
  • Specialized
2 6.9

Helping someone get better after illness or tiredness

is broader, covering any way to make someone feel better again
remedial
vsrestorative
1 5.3

Helps heal a sickness or an injury

is wider, meaning any ability to make someone healthier or stronger
restitutive
vsrestorative
7.9

Making someone feel healthy and strong again

is the same in ability to make someone feel better
healing
vsrestorative
2.6

That helps the body or mind become healthy again

emphasizes feeling stronger and healthier rather than only cure
reparatory
vsrestorative
8.2

Helps restore health or strength

focuses more on making a person feel better rather than repair
reparative
vsrestorative
6.8

Helping to fix or improve something that is damaged

applies to restoring people’s health and strength rather than objects
revitalizing
vsrestorative
  • US
4.3

Something that makes a person or thing feel stronger and more energetic

focuses on restoring health and strength rather than only fresh energy
renewing
vsrestorative
3.7

Giving new life and energy to people or things

is about recovering health and strength rather than only giving fresh energy
reviving
vsrestorative
3.6

Giving new energy and making someone feel awake again

is broader, covering return to health and strength beyond energy alone
rejuvenative
vsrestorative
6.6

Making people or things look and feel younger

focuses on regaining health and strength rather than youthful appearance

Antonyms

161 2.6

Causing damage to people, animals or things

49 6.3

Causing harm to people, things, or the environment

Compounds

A time or activity that makes you feel calmer and more energetic

How Restorative

healing
2.6
restorative
14 5.4
refreshing
1 2.6
soothing
81 2.9

Surface Forms

restorative positive

Morphology

restorative = restore (transparent) = restore + ative

Adjectival sense formed by adding '-ative' to 'restore', yielding 'having the ability to restore', which is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word restorative comes from the same root as restore and the Latin restaurare, which mean 'bring back' or 'make well'. That's why something called restorative is said to make you feel better, healthier, or stronger.