Definitions for radiant

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radiant ra·di·ant

Spelling: [rey-dee-uh nt]

IPA: /ˈreɪ di ənt/

Radiant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in radiant (aadinrt).

Definitions for radiant

noun

1. a point or object from which rays proceed.
2. Astronomy. the point in the heavens from which a shower of meteors appears to radiate.
3. a refractory absorbing and radiating heat from the flames of a gas fireplace or the like.

adjective

1. emitting rays of light; shining; bright:
2. bright with joy, hope, etc.:
3. Physics. emitted or propagated by radiation.
4. Heraldry. noting a partition line having a series of flamelike indentations formed by ogees joined in zigzags; rayonny. (of a charge, as an ordinary) having an edge or edges so formed.

Origin of radiant

1400-50; late Middle English Latin radiant- (stem of radiāns, present participle of radiāre to radiate light, shine), equivalent to radi(us) beam, ray (see radius)

Examples for radiant

And so again and again he pitted his own radiant confidence against some equal and opposite force.

To the widow of Mr Verloc the robust anarchist was like a radiant messenger of life.

Bulbs strung among branches in the overhead wild hibiscus tree form a radiant canopy.

He taught her how to die by slow example, and she was radiant with the privilege.

There is a radiant picture of this morning ride still fresh in my memory.

John Paul was youthful in his sixties with a radiant charisma.

She was obliged to go, and to appear all radiant with pleasure.

Gilder sprang to his feet, his face suddenly grown younger, radiant.

He looked upward with a radiant expression, and feebly pressed her hand.

McDonald is a radiant talent, with a warm voice and beaming smile that light up any venue in which she appears.