refreshing
爽やかな
解説 Definition
refreshing は refresh（元気づける、さわやかにする）の現在分詞からできた形容詞です。飲み物、空気、考え方、体験などが気分をすっきりさせる「爽やかな」という意味で使われます。
Causing someone to feel cooler, more energetic, mentally renewed, or pleasantly surprised. It can describe drinks and air as well as experiences, ideas, or honest behavior that provides a welcome change from what is usual.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形refresh「元気を取り戻させる」に-ingを付け、何かが人をすっきりさせる性質を表す。refreshing drink、refreshing breeze、refreshing honestyのように、飲み物・風だけでなく率直さにも使える。refreshingは原因、refreshedはそれを受けて爽快になった人の状態と区別する。
Start with refresh, meaning to restore energy or make someone feel fresh again. Adding -ing creates refreshing, describing the thing that produces that effect: a refreshing drink, a refreshing breeze, or a refreshing change. The same idea extends beyond physical coolness; an unusually honest answer can feel refreshing because it renews your interest or offers relief from predictable behavior. Contrast refreshing, the cause of the pleasant feeling, with refreshed, the state of the person who experiences it. Refresh becomes refreshing by dropping its final silent e before -ing only when applicable; here refresh simply takes -ing.
例文
This lemon drink is refreshing.
このレモンの飲み物は爽やかです。
A cool wind felt refreshing after the run.
走った後の涼しい風が爽やかに感じられました。
Her honest answer was refreshing.
彼女の正直な答えは爽やかに感じられました。
refreshing の類義語・関連語
refreshing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
refreshing は re-「再び」+ fresh「新鮮な」+ -ing から成り、refresh は古フランス語 refreschir を経て英語に入りました。もとは「もう一度新しくする」で、心身を生き返らせる感じから「爽やかな」という意味になります。関連語は fresh, refreshment。
Refreshing is formed from the verb refresh and the participial suffix -ing. Refresh entered English through Old French refreschir, meaning to make fresh again or restore, and ultimately combines an element meaning “again” with the idea expressed by fresh. The adjective developed naturally from the present participle: something refreshing actively renews energy, comfort, or interest. Fresh, refreshment, refreshed, and refreshing preserve the shared idea of restored freshness or vitality.
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