Synonyms of life-giving

life-giving

adjective

as in restorative

giving or having power to create or support life; essential to life

The sun provides life-giving energy.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• restorative
• vitalizing
• strengthening
• vital
• refreshing
• stimulating
• beneficial
• conditioning
• stimulative
• medicinal
• reviving
• rejuvenating
• tonic
• bracing
• therapeutic
• cordial
• invigorating
• exhilarating
• healthy
• quickening
• curative
• healthful
• animating
• corrective
• remedial
• reparative
• rehabilitative
• wholesome
• recuperative
• helpful
• reformative
• salutary
• salubrious
• curing
• rectifying
• reformatory
• exhilarative
• sharp
• remedying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• draining
• weakening
• debilitating
• exhausting
• deadening
• injurious
• pernicious
• deleterious
• numbing
• sapping
• enervating
• wearying
• noxious
• enfeebling
• unhealthy
• unhealthful
• unwholesome
• insalubrious

Examples of life-giving in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Slabs of paint applied with a brush-and-palette-knife technique fuse with sheer cliffs beneath a canopy of bare branches, a life-giving stream emerging from the murky depths of a gorge (the title’s puits-noir, or black ravine). —Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024

Or maybe an even larger body, a mini-Neptune, could hold a water ocean under a thick hydrogen atmosphere that lets in just enough life-giving light. —Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024

This in turn created a shallow inland sea that was rich in these life-giving nutrients. —Michael Irving, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2024

Such features can arise from chemical reactions that could provide life-giving energy for microbes. —Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024