Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Sending forth radiant light.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Emitting rays of light.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Irradiating or illuminating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That radiates light

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin irradiāns, irradiant-, present participle of irradiāre, to shine forth; see irradiate.]

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Examples

  • Castle was beginning to understand they had been hit by translucent, pure impulses of irradiant energy.

    The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010

  • The most psychedelic of the Institute for Figuring reefs, the Plastic Exploding Inevitable features irradiant pink "sand," miniature white plastic spires, a grove of wine-glass trees, and a gorgeous reef panorama painted on a take-out box by Alicia Escott.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • The most psychedelic of the Institute for Figuring reefs, the Plastic Exploding Inevitable features irradiant pink "sand," miniature white plastic spires, a grove of wine-glass trees, and a gorgeous reef panorama painted on a take-out box by Alicia Escott.

    The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • In emblems, it often indicates the irradiant, mystic 'Centre'.

    The AOXOMOXOA song cycle David Dodd 2005

  • Along the horizon to the east the sun, irradiant and magnified, lay low over the heaving seas.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • His towering intellect, polished with education, instructed in the Bible, and irradiant with the Holy Spirit, gave him a wide horizon.

    Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

  • Missy's eyelids fluttered; the street lamp's halo grew more and more irradiant; gleamed out to illumine, resplendently, a slender girl in white standing on a lighted stage, gazing with luminous eyes out on a darkened auditorium, a house as hushed as when little Eva dies.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • While he preached, the eternal world seemed irradiant about him.

    Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

  • Missy, with Poppylinda purring beside her, found this mysterious, irradiant feeling flowing out of her heart almost as tangible as a third live being in her quaint little room.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • She had often wished that, by some magic, the world might be enabled to spin out its whole time in such a gossamer, irradiant sheen as this -- a sort of moon-haunted night-without-end, keeping you tingling with beautiful, blurred, indescribable feelings.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

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