refreshing
/ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/ adjective C1- That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
- Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
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Its windows, opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.”
In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
He had noticed that a few rays, not of daylight, but from a lamp, penetrated through the ill-joined planks of the door; he approached just as the brigand was refreshing himself with a mouthful of brandy, which, owing to the leathern bottle containing it, sent forth an odor which was extremely unpleasant to Danglars.
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