Restorative

//ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving to restore.

    "After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer."

Adjective
  1. 1
    promoting recuperation wordnet
  2. 2
    tending to impart new life and vigor to wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Something with restoring properties.

    "Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive."

  2. 2
    a device for treating injury or disease wordnet
  3. 3
    An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic. euphemistic

    "“Well, let's hope you're right, darling. In the meantime,” said Kipper, “if I don't get that whisky-and-soda soon, I shall disintegrate. Would you mind if I went in search of it, Mrs Travers?” “It's the very thing I was about to suggest myself. Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie. “Me also,” I said, swept along on the tide of the popular movement. “Though I would advise,” I said, when we were outside, “making it port. More authority.”"

  4. 4
    a medicine that strengthens and invigorates wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus, equivalent to restore + -ative.

Etymology 2

From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus, equivalent to restore + -ative.

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