invigorating

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invigorating - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Invigorate \In*vig"or*ate\ ([i^]n*v[i^]g"[~e]r*[=a]t), v. t.
     [imp. & p. p. Invigorated ([i^]n*v[i^]g"[~e]r*[=a]`t[e^]d);
     p. pr. & vb. n. Invigorating.] [Pref. in- in + vigor.]
     To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and
     energy to.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless
           fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity.
                                                    --Atterbury.
  
     Syn: To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.
          [1913 Webster]

invigorating - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  invigorating
      adj 1: imparting strength and vitality; "the invigorating
             mountain air" [ant: debilitating]

invigorating - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "invigorating":
     activating, analeptic, animating, animative, beneficial, benign,
     bracing, brisk, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chill, chilly,
     constitutional, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy,
     encouraging, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative,
     fresh, glad, gladdening, good, good for, health-enhancing,
     health-preserving, healthful, healthy, heart-warming, heartening,
     hygeian, hygienic, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorative, joyful,
     quickening, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, rejuvenating,
     restorative, reviving, roborant, rousing, salubrious, salutary,
     sanitary, stimulating, stimulative, strengthening, temperate,
     tonic, viable, vitalizing, vivifying, wholesome, zestful, zesty