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comparative more radiant, superlative most radiant
Radiating light and/or heat. examples
Emitted as radiation. examples
Beaming with vivacity and happiness. quotations examples
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
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, page 171
Strikingly beautiful. quotations examples
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
Emitting or proceeding as if from a center. examples
(heraldry) Giving off rays; said of a bearing. examples
(botany) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers. examples
plural radiants
A point source from which radiation is emitted. examples
(astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower. examples
(geometry) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve. examples