Word Study
restful
CIDE DICTIONARY
restful, a.
- Being at rest; quiet. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc. [1913 Webster]"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
restful, adj.
1 favourable to quiet or repose.
2 free from disturbing influences.
3 soothing.
1 favourable to quiet or repose.
2 free from disturbing influences.
3 soothing.
Derivative
restfully adv. restfulness n.
THESAURUS
restful
appeasing, at peace, at rest, bloodless, calm, calming, cloistered, comfortable, comforting, comfy, commodious, concordant, contented, convenient, cool, cozy, cradling, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, dreamy, drowsy, dwindling, easeful, easy, ebbing, even-tenored, festal, friendly, gentling, halcyon, holiday, homelike, homely, homey, hushed, hushing, hypnotic, idyllic, impassive, isolated, lived-in, lulling, luxurious, moldering, mollifying, orderly, pacific, pacifying, pastoral, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, piping, placid, quiescent, quiet, quietening, relaxed, relaxing, reposeful, reposing, resting, rocking, roomy, sabbatical, secluded, sedative, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, sleep-inducing, smooth, snug, soft, somnolent, soothful, soothing, soporific, still, still as death, stilling, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, tranquilizing, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, vacational, waning, warmROGET THESAURUS
restful
Quiescence
N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.For further exploring for "restful" in Webster Dictionary Online