46 synonyms for refreshing such as different, bracing, avant-garde, and creative. Refreshing is an adjective, and its antonyms are stale and draining.
Bracing, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, fortifying, freshening, inspiriting, invigorating, reanimating, rejuvenating, restoring, revitalizing, revivifying, reviving, stimulating, and thirst-quenching.
Avant-garde, creative, different, distinctive, fresh, groundbreaking, imaginative, individual, individualistic, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, new, not just another, novel, original, pioneering, resourceful, stimulating, unconventional, unfamiliar, unique, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual, and welcome.