RESTFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restful mean? 

• RESTFUL (adjective)
  The adjective RESTFUL has 1 sense:

1. affording physical or mental rest

  Familiarity information: RESTFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affording physical or mental rest

Synonyms:

relaxing; reposeful; restful

Context example:

she spent a restful night at home

Similar:

slumberous; slumbrous (quiet and tranquil)

Antonym:

restless (lacking or not affording physical or mental rest)

Derivation:

restfulness (the attribute of being restful)

 Context examples 

"What do you think I ought to do? Nothing scenic, I hope. You see I am stiff and trail-sore, and this bunk is so restful."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Lucy seems more restful than she has been for some time, and fell asleep at once.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere—the sweet restful silence of nature.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not restful, that green foliage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Yes, and I think it will last," added Mrs. March, with the restful expression of a pilot who has brought a ship safely into port.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The restful loneliness of the only life he had known was gone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

How I had chafed and longed for the wonders of town, and yet, now that I had seen more than my wildest dreams had ever deemed possible, my eyes had rested upon nothing which was so sweet and so restful as our own little sitting-room, with its terra-cotta-coloured walls, and those trifles which are so insignificant in themselves, and yet so rich in memories—the blow-fish from the Moluccas, the narwhal’s horn from the Arctic, and the picture of the Ca Ira, with Lord Hotham in chase!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Home is a nice place, though it isn't splendid, said Meg, looking about her with a restful expression, as she sat with her mother and Jo on the Sunday evening.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)