radiant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Radiating light and/or heat.

   The radiant sun.

2. 2
   adj

   Beaming with vivacity and happiness.

   A radiant face.

3. 3
   adj

   Strikingly beautiful.

   And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.

4. 4
   adj

   Giving off rays.

   The sun radiant.

From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).

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