Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to recreate; refreshing: giving now vigor or animation; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being, or pertaining to,
recreation . - adjective Creating anew.
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Examples
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But Smith said the majority did not adequately define just what those activities are or attempt to answer questions Lippman's ruling poses, such as why the Lake George youth's banister-sliding was not "recreative"?
Law.com - Newswire 2010
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The band really started as a recreative side-project for all of us.
Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More Mike Ragogna 2011
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Besides, I had written a string of successful books, and society demands some portion of the recreative hours of a fellow that writes books.
Chapter 29 2010
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The band really started as a recreative side-project for all of us.
Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More Mike Ragogna 2011
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The right to decide, and the means to achieve it, whether and when sexual intercourse shall be recreative or procreative.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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To use it to refer to purely recreative interracial sex is to use the term falsely, unless of course, the kink is for unsafe interracial sex that leads to pregnancy.
SeeLight: 2007
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To use it to refer to purely recreative interracial sex is to use the term falsely, unless of course, the kink is for unsafe interracial sex that leads to pregnancy.
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Cats - invariably female - were Egyptian symbols for female sexuality and the recreative force, embodied in such goddesses as Bast (Bastet) and the powerful and ancient lioness-headed Sekhmet (Sakhmet), an aspect of equally ancient goddess Hathor (Het-hert), often depicted as a cow-headed woman.
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Memory is a recreative process — if you want your last memory of someone to be happy, just pick a happy memory.
Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Memory is a recreative process — if you want your last memory of someone to be happy, just pick a happy memory.
Stumblin' Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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