Radiant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Emitting heat or light.
  • adj. Consisting of or emitted as radiation: radiant heat.
  • adj. Filled with light; bright.
  • adj. Glowing; beaming. See Synonyms at bright.
  • n. An object or a point from which light or heat rays are emitted.
  • n. Astronomy The apparent celestial origin of a meteoric shower.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Radiating light and/or heat.
  • adj. Emitted as radiation.
  • adj. Bright, glowing or filled with light.
  • n. A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  • n. The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  • n. A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
  • adj. Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor.
  • adj. Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
  • adj. Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing
  • adj. Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
  • adj. Emitted or transmitted by radiation.
  • n. The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
  • n. A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
  • n. The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Darting, shooting, or emitting rays of light or heat; shining; sparkling: beaming with brightness, literally or figuratively: as, the radiant sun; a radiant countenance.
  • Giving out rays; proceeding in the form of rays; resembling rays; radiating; also, radiated; radiate: as, radiant heat.
  • In heraldry:
  • Edged with rays: said of an ordinary or other bearing such as is usually bounded with straight lines, the rays generally appearing like long indentations. See ray, 8.
  • Giving off rays, which do not form a broken or indented edge to the bearing, but stream from it, its outline being usually perfect and the rays apparently streaming from behind it.
  • In botany, radiating; radiate.
  • Synonyms Beaming, resplendent. See radiance.
  • n. In optics, a luminous point or object from which light radiates to the eye, or to a mirror or lens; a point considered as the focus of a pencil of rays.
  • n. In astronomy, the point in the heavens from which the shooting-stars of a meteoric shower seem to proceed: thus, the radiant of the shower of November 13th is near the star ζ Leonis, and these meteors are hence called the Leonides.
  • n. In geometry, a ray conceived as revolving about its starting-point.
  • n. A substance that emits rays, specifically N-rays.
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  • adj. radiating or as if radiating light
  • Equivalent
    bright   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    radiating    radiate    luminous    pleased   
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    gradient   
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    bright    luminous    dazzle    glorious    rosy    vivid    heavenly    sunny    pure