Synonyms for restorative
- adjective
- noun
Most common
healthful invigorating reparative recuperative renewing compensatory analeptic roborant
All synonyms
Adjective
reparative, invigorating, recuperative, healthful, cordial, compensatory, renewing, analeptic, roborant, reparatory, roborative dated rare
Noun
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Serving to restore.
After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
- n. 1
Something with restoring properties.
Forms
- Plural
- restoratives → correctives, curatives, remedials, remedies…
Example sentences
- healthful My goats are more healthful than this man's oxen will ever be.
- invigorating A sip of invigorating kvass gave him strength.
- renewing Life is continually renewing itself.
- compensatory There’s been no claim for punitive damages, only compensatory.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| restorative | rising | |
| healthful | steady | |
| invigorating | rising | |
| reparative | rising | |
| recuperative | steady | |
| renewing | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- help1, cure1
- 5 letters
- tonic2
- 6 letters
- remedy3
- 7 letters
- cordial2
- 8 letters
- renewing3, remedial4, curative3, roborant
- 9 letters
- healthful2, analeptic
- 10 letters
- corrective3, reparative, reparatory, roborative
- 12 letters
- compensatory5, invigorating5, recuperative5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tonic2 = 2 syllables).