life-giving

American  

[lahyf-giv-ing] / ˈlaɪfˌgɪv ɪŋ /

adjective

1. imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing.

   life-giving love and praise.

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Other Word Forms

• life-giver noun

Etymology

Origin of life-giving

First recorded in 1555–65

Example Sentences

In “Free” and elsewhere—her public lectures, for instance—she’s made plain her distaste for capitalism, a system that a majority of Albanians today associate with liberty but also with life-giving light after long years of darkness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

There were folks in the audience who didn’t think that was anything to laugh at; the unmistakably sour expression on James Burrows’ face as Rogen skipped to the stage was life-giving.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025

But those planets are far away from our life-giving Sun.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Morsels of patience and generosity become life-giving sustenance, even if we cathartically prefer the scenes where strangers fire back at Pansy with both barrels.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

Instead he looked to our own Greek diet— our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, ourpilafi, raisins, and figs—as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides