Definition of Radiant

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Radiant

Emitted or transmitted by radiation; as, a radiant energy; radiant heat.

Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.

Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.

Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.

Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.

Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.

A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.

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Radiant Quotations

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nikolai Gogol

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Ruth Bernhard

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
Barry Cornwall

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
Kate D. Wiggins

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
Libby Houston

Radiant Translations

radiant in Spanish is radiante

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