restorative

1. 1.

   tending to impart new life and vigor to

   “the renewing warmth of the sunshine”

   Synonymsrenewingrevivingrevitalizingrevitalising

   Similarinvigorating
2. 2.

   promoting recuperation

   “recuperative powers”

   “strongly recuperative remedies”

   “restorative effects of exercise”

   Synonymsrecuperative

   Similarhealthful

Other forms of restorative

plural

restoratives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about restorative

What does restorative mean?

restorative means "a medicine that strengthens and invigorates". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in restorative?

restorative has 4 syllables: re-sto-ra-tive. The stress falls on "sto". In IPA it is /ɹəˈstɔɹətɪv/.

What is another word for restorative?

Close synonyms include tonic, corrective, renewing, reviving, revitalizing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is restorative a common word?

restorative is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.