Dictionary Definition
restorative adj
1 tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the
renewing warmth of the sunshine" [syn: renewing, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising]
2 promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers";
"strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise"
[syn: recuperative]
Noun
1 a medicine that strengthens and invigorates
[syn: tonic]
2 a device for treating injury or disease [syn:
corrective]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Something believed to have restoring properties
References
- OED2
Adjective
restorative- Of or pertaining to restoring.
- After a long day working in the fields Clarance took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Phoenixlike, activator, adjuvant, aid, alterative, analeptic, animator, arouser, assistance, astringent, balm, balsam, bracer, bracing, compensatory, cordial, corrective, corroborant, curative, cure, curing, energizer, healing, healing agent, healing
quality, help, human
dynamo, iatric, indemnificatory,
invigorating,
life, medicative, medicinal, motivating force,
motive power, pick-me-up, prescription, re-creative,
re-formative, reappearing, receipt, recipe, redeeming, redemptional, redemptive, refreshing, regenerative, relief, remedial, remedial measure,
remedy, renascent, reorganizational,
reparative, reparatory, reproductive, restitutive, restitutory, resurgent, retributive, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revisional, reviving, roborant, sanative, sanatory, sovereign remedy,
spark plug, specific,
specific remedy, stimulant, stimulating, stimulator, stimulus, strengthening, succor, therapeutic, theriac, tonic, vitamin shot, vulnerary, wholesome