Word Meanings - RADIANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant. (more info) rays or beams, fr. radius ray: cf. F. radiant. See Radius, Ray a 1. Emitting or proceeding as from a center; rays; radiating; radiate. 2. Especially,

Additional info about word: RADIANT

Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant. (more info) rays or beams, fr. radius ray: cf. F. radiant. See Radius, Ray a 1. Emitting or proceeding as from a center; rays; radiating; radiate. 2. 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. Mark what radiant state she spreads. Milton. 3. Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RADIANT)

• Beaming
• Shining
• gleaming
• bright
• radiant
• beautiful
• transparent
• translucid
• Bright
• brilliant
• burnished
• luminous
• lucid
• sparkling
• limpid
• clever
• happy
• witty
• joyous
• cheerful
• Celestial
• Heavenly
• ethereal
• atmospheric
• supernal
• angelic
• eternal
• immortal
• seraphic
• divine
• godlike
• elysian
• Relucent
• shining
• glittering
• flashing
• lum nous
• crystalline
• pellucid
• effulgent
• Vivid
• resplendent
• lustrous
• graphic
• clear
• lively
• animated
• stirring
• striking
• glowing
• sunny
• scintillant

Related words: (words related to RADIANT)

• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• BRIGHT
  See I
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• BEAMFUL
  Beamy; radiant.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• BEAMLESS
  1. Not having a beam. 2. Not emitting light.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• ANGELIC; ANGELICAL
  Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay.
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• BEAMY
  1. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell. 2. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden. 3. Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• ETERNALIST
  One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.
• CELESTIAL
  1. Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• SUPERCELESTIAL
  1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• PHYTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to phytography.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.