radiant
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- adjective Emitting heat or light.
- adjective Consisting of or emitted as radiation: radiant heat.
- adjective Filled with light; bright.
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- Their eyes glowed with it; their faces were radiant, and auras of light coruscated around them. — Aerie
- Her beauty in the moonlight was radiant, her fear only enhanced her fragile loveliness. — Test of the Twins
- They had looked radiant, and would relish discussing each detail. — Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
- And the weather of the summers when they were children always radiant, and the wild fruit they gathered then sweeter than any that grows now? — Monk's Hood
- " she asked him gently, and it was that vision of her he always remembered: her hair billowing in the wind, her expression radiant and hopeful, like that of an angel. — Message in a Bottle
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- Middle English, from Latin radiāns, radiant-, present participle of radiāre, to radiate; see radiate.
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/ (rāˈdē-ənt)/
ahd pronounces "radiant"
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