bracing

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: brac=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

bracing, a. 

 Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.  [1913 Webster]

bracing, n. 

•  The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

bracing

activating, analeptic, animating, animative, bearing, beneficial, benign, bolstering, brisk, burdened, buttressing, carrying, cheering, chill, chilly, constitutional, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, fortifying, fresh, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, holding, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, invigorative, maintaining, propping, quickening, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, restorative, reviving, roborant, rousing, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, shoring, stimulating, stimulative, strengthening, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, temperate, tonic, upholding, viable, vitalizing, wholesome, zestful, zesty

ROGET THESAURUS

bracing

Salubrity

N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.

Refreshment

N refreshment, bracing, recovery of strength, recuperation, restoration, revival, repair, refection, refocillation, refreshment, regalement, bait, relief, break, spell, refreshment stand, refreshments, ice cream, cold soda, soda pop, hot dogs (food), refreshing, recuperative, refreshed, untired, unwearied.