单词 | restful |
释义 | restful (once / 2257 pages) adj Something that's restful soothes you or helps you to relax. At the end of a long, busy day, a hot bath can be restful. Chasing your three year-old cousin around a playground in the hot sun for an hour isn't particularly restful, but you might follow that up with a restful nap in a comfortable hammock. Anything peaceful and quiet is restful. The word adds the suffix -ful, "full of" or "characterized by," to rest, which comes from a Germanic root meaning "rest, repose, or peace." WORD FAMILYrestful: restfuler, restfulest, restfully, restfulness+/rest: rested, rester, restful, resting, restless, rests, unrest/rested: unrested/rester: resters/restless: restlessly, restlessness/restlessness: restlessnesses/unrest: unrests USAGE EXAMPLESAdd moisture to dry winter air to breathe easier and get more restful sleep. Time(Dec 20, 2016) Plan too for restful sleep—it has been shown to support not only our health overall but too with warding off weight gain. Washington Times(Nov 18, 2016) But if that familiarity with pain is universal, then so to is an appreciation that there is something rejuvenating, even restful, in that pain. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) adj affording physical or mental rest she spent a restful night at home Syn|Ant relaxing, reposeful slumberous, slumbrous quiet and tranquil restless, uneasy lacking or not affording physical or mental rest |
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