radiant
Meaning
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- Radiating light and/or heat.
- Emitted as radiation.
- Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
- Strikingly beautiful.
- Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
- Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
- Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
Synonyms
be bright
be brilliant
shining brightly
be shining
healthy-looking
shining bright
thermal source
heat reservoir
meteor radiant
source of heat
radious
radioactive energy
thermal resource
heat producer
radiation-producing
heat source
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).
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