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radiant

/ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/

radiant adjective: radiating light and/or heat.

Adjective

radiant (comparative more radiant, superlative most radiant)

  1. Radiating light and/or heat.
    • the radiant sun
    • They in ranks / Sat all, where ſtood the fiery ſteeds of each, / And where his radiant arms lay on the field.1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book III.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 79
  2. Emitted as radiation.
  3. (figuratively) Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
    • a radiant face
    • His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil ! You ! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow !” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  4. (figuratively) Strikingly beautiful.
    • And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94
  5. Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  6. Giving off rays.
    • the sun radiant
    • a crown radiant
  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

radiant (plural radiants)

  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.

radiant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

radiant in Hindi

radiating light and/or heat
कांतिमान् kāntimān, ज्वलंत jvalant
beaming with vivacity and happiness
प्रफुल्ल praphull, प्रफुल्लित praphullit, तेजस्वी tejasvī

radiant in Tamil

ஒளிவீசு, கதிர்வீசும், கதிர்வீச்சு

radiant in Urdu

radiant
اججول ujjval, چمکیلا camkīlā

radiant in Bengali

radiant, full of rays
অংশুল oṅśul
radiant
ভাস্বর bhaśśor
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radiant in Telugu
ఉజ్వలము ujvalamu
radiant in Malayalam
കിരണങ്ങൾ വീശുന്ന, തേജസ്സുള്ള, റേഡിയോതരംഗങ്ങൾ പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കുന്ന
radiant in Kannada
ವಿರಾಜಮಾನ virājamāna
radiant in Sanskrit
चन्द्र candra, उज्ज्वल ujjvala
radiant in Nepali
रेडिएन्ट
radiant in Arabic
مُشِعّ mušiʕʕ, مُتَوَهِّج mutawahhij
radiant in Persian
تابناک tâbnâk, درخشنده deraxšande

Examples of radiant in a sentence

  • The couple's sustainability efforts also included installing radiant heat under the concrete-slab floor.2026 May, Julie Belcove, “Farm Fresh”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 93:
  • Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:

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Forms of radiant

Adjective
comparativemore radiant
superlativemost radiant
alternative form (obsolete)radient
Noun
pluralradiants

Origin of radiant

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

Words formed from radiant

Phrases with radiant

Questions about radiant

What does radiant mean?
Radiant means radiating light and/or heat.
What is radiant in Hindi?
Radiant in Hindi is कांतिमान् (kāntimān), ज्वलंत (jvalant), प्रफुल्ल (praphull). See Radiant meaning in Hindi.
How do you use radiant in a sentence?
The couple's sustainability efforts also included installing radiant heat under the concrete-slab floor.
What part of speech is radiant?
Radiant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce radiant?
Radiant is pronounced /ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/.

Words near radiant in the dictionary

  1. radiancies
  2. radiancy
  3. radians
  4. radiansphere
  5. radianspheres
  6. radiant
  7. radiant energies
  8. radiant energy
  9. radiant heat
  10. radiantly
  11. radiantness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: radiant (page history and authors); radiant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اججول (Urdu) (page history and authors); অংশুল (Bengali) (page history and authors); ఉజ్వలము (Telugu) (page history and authors); radiant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ವಿರಾಜಮಾನ (Kannada) (page history and authors); radiant (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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