restorative

[ ri-stawr-uh-tiv, -stohr- ]

adjective

1. serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
2. capable of renewing health or strength.

noun

1. a restorative agent, means, or the like.
2. a means of restoring a person to consciousness:

   Smelling salts serve as a restorative.

restorative

/ rɪˈstɒrətɪv /

adjective

1. tending to revive or renew health, spirits, etc

noun

1. anything that restores or revives, esp a drug or agent that promotes health or strength

Other Words From

• nonre·stora·tive adjective noun
• unre·stora·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of restorative¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English restoratif (adjective and noun), from Middle French restauratif, from Latin restaurāt(us) (past participle of restaurāre “to rebuild, repair”; restore ) + Middle French -if -ive

Example Sentences

There is a kind of joy, too, that is redemptive, restorative—resurrection joy.

From Popular-Science

So I just started taking restorative yoga multiple times a week for about three months.

From Ozy

Versus prior to being introduced to restorative yoga, I was always looking for outside sources to help heal me and to also discover who I was.

From Ozy

I’m hoping that customers find a restorative beverage that centers them and helps them find focus while alleviating the innumerable stresses that come at us every single day.

From Fortune

They can push schools to reinvest resources at school level and implement restorative justice policies and practices that will help close the school-to-prison pipeline.

From Vox

You are strongly encouraged to sit down, and perhaps take a small restorative brandy.

From The Daily Beast

After, the restorative effects of “two jiggers from an old bottle of Wild Turkey,” he began the next chapter of his life.

From The Daily Beast

And next week I'm starting something very exciting with a woman who is going to do an hour of restorative yoga with me.

From The Daily Beast

A-listers including Madonna, Matthew McConaughey, and Demi Moore are hawking the restorative powers of coconut water.

From The Daily Beast

Despite all this sensational, restorative sex, Stone is a teeny bit defensive about his heterosexuality.

From The Daily Beast

She paused, whispered, "The restorative," and I gave her the medicine.

From Project Gutenberg

The usual restorative was to stamp about and beat the chest with the hands—an old sailor's trick.

From Project Gutenberg

God's Word hid in the heart is not only a preservative against sin, but a restorative from its evil effects.

From Project Gutenberg

I drank the milk with pleasure, and ate the bread, chaff and all; but it was not very restorative to a man sinking with fatigue.

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His bodily vigor was unimpaired; but his mind demanded the restorative tonic of peace.

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