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From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).
radiant (comparative more radiant, superlative most radiant)
- Radiating light and/or heat.
the radiant sun
- Emitted as radiation.
- Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
a radiant face
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil ! You ! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow !” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
- Strikingly beautiful.
1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94:
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.
- Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
- (heraldry) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
the sun radiant; a crown radiant
- (botany) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
radiating light and/or heat
- Arabic: مُشِعّ (mušiʕʕ), مُتَوَهِّج (mutawahhij)
- Armenian: պայծառ (hy) (paycaṙ)
- Belarusian: зіхатлі́вы (zixatlívy), святлі́сты (svjatlísty), бліску́чы (bliskúčy)
- Bulgarian: лъчи́ст (bg) (lǎčíst), сия́ен (bg) (sijáen)
- Catalan: radiant
- Finnish: säteilevä (fi)
- Irish: lonrach
- Italian: radiante (it)
- Javanese: sumunar (jv)
- Kapampangan: masala
- Korean: 환하다 (ko) (hwanhada)
- Latin: radians (la)
- Lithuanian: švytinti f
- Macedonian: сја́е (sjáe), зра́чи (zráči), бле́ска (bléska)
- Ottoman Turkish: نورانی (nurani), ایشق (ışık)
- Persian: تابناک (fa) (tâbnâk)
- Russian: светя́щийся (ru) (svetjáščijsja), лучеза́рный (ru) (lučezárnyj), сия́ющий (ru) (sijájuščij)
- Sanskrit: चन्द्र (sa) (candra), उज्ज्वल (sa) (ujjvala)
- Spanish: radiante (es)
- Swedish: strålande (sv)
- Ukrainian: ся́ючий (sjájučyj), ося́йний (osjájnyj)
beaming with vivacity and happiness
- Bulgarian: лъчеза́рен (bg) (lǎčezáren)
- Catalan: radiant
- Finnish: säteilevä (fi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: گەش (geş)
- Persian: درخشنده (fa) (deraxšande), تابناک (fa) (tâbnâk)
- Portuguese: radiante (pt)
- Russian: лучеза́рный (ru) (lučezárnyj), я́ркий (ru) (járkij) (bright), пыла́ющий (ru) (pylájuščij), сверка́ющий (ru) (sverkájuščij)
- Spanish: radiante (es)
radiant (plural radiants)
radiant
- “radiant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
radiant
radiant m or n (feminine singular radiantă, masculine plural radianți, feminine and neuter plural radiante)