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Refreshing vs Agreeable - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between refreshing and agreeable

is that refreshing is that refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

As nouns the difference between refreshing and agreeable

is that refreshing is the action of refresh; refreshment given or received while agreeable is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

As a verb refreshing

is present participle of lang=en.

refreshing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
  • Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
  • *2003 , John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges , page 74:
    • The polarization system has a refreshing' rate that is twice the ' refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.

    Derived terms

    * refreshingly * refreshingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
  • * 1821 , Frederick Butler, A Complete History of the United States of America
    • Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold
  • That which gives refreshment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • agreeable

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
    • agreeable manners
    agreeable remarks
    an agreeable person
    fruit agreeable to the taste
  • * (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
    • A train of agreeable reveries.
  • (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
  • * (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
    • These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
  • Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
  • * (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
    • That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
  • In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
    • Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

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