restorative

What it means

1. Serving to restore.

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

   3 more examples

   Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.

   1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

   Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.

   2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN

   Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.

   2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71

   Synonyms: roborant, roborative, roborating

In a sentence

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

Where it comes from

1. Medieval Latinrestaurātīvus
2. Old Frenchrestoratif
3. Middle Englishrestoratif
4. Englishrestorative

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