life-giving

Definitions

Providing or sustaining the conditions necessary for life.

Having a revitalizing or invigorating effect.

Examples

The spring rains provided a life-giving drink to the parched desert landscape.

Many cultures view the sun as a life-giving force that sustains all existence on Earth.

The doctor's life-giving intervention saved the patient during the critical surgery.

Synonyms

vivifying animating revitalizing nourishing restorative invigorating sustaining

Antonyms

deadly lethal destructive fatal harmful debilitating draining