Word Meanings - REFRESHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;

Additional info about word: REFRESHMENT

1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFRESHMENT)

• Ease
• Enjoyment
• comfort
• rest
• repose
• tranquility
• refreshment
• relief
• quiet
• contentment
• satisfaction
• readiness
• Recreation
• Refreshment
• cheer
• reanimation
• amusement
• diversion
• revival
• holiday
• sport
• pastime
• relaxation
• Relay
• Reinforcement
• recruitment
• supply
• Relief
• Succor
• support
• release
• extrication
• alleviation
• mitigation
• aid
• holp
• assistance
• remedy
• redress
• exemption
• deliverance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REFRESHMENT)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to REFRESHMENT)

• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUCCOR
  tiono run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from He is able to succor them that are tempted. Heb. ii. 18. Syn. -- To aid; assist; relieve; deliver; help; comfort. (more
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• RELIEFLESS
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• ALLEVIATION
  1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief. 2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• RELAY
  To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.