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Brisk vs Refreshing - What's the difference?

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Brisk is a synonym of refreshing.


As adjectives the difference between brisk and refreshing

is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while refreshing is that refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.

As verbs the difference between brisk and refreshing

is that brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate while refreshing is .

As a noun refreshing is

the action of refresh; refreshment given or received.

brisk

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
    • We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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  • Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
  • Stimulating or invigorating.
    • This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
  • Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

    See also

    * brusque

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

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    Anagrams

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    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

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