English Explanatory Dictionary

radiant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Radiating light and/or heat.
  2. Emitted as radiation.
  3. Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
  4. Strikingly beautiful.
  5. Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  6. Giving off rays.
  7. Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
noun
  1. A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  2. The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  3. A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-radiant.wav

Word forms

radiant more radiant most radiant radient radiants

Etymology

From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).

Derived words

octoradiant radiance radiancy radiant energy radiant heat radiantly radiantness subradiant superradiant unradiant
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