refreshing

adj

1. That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.

   “The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.”

   “Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong.”

2. Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.

   “The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.”

noun

1. The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.

   “Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold […]”

2. That which gives refreshment.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of refresh