bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous mean shining or glowing with light. bright implies emitting or reflecting a high degree of light. brilliant implies intense often sparkling brightness. …

RADIANT definition: 1. obviously very happy, or very beautiful: 2. producing heat or light: 3. obviously very happy…. Learn more.

Definition of radiant adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Something that is radiant glows brightly. The evening sun warms the old red brick wall to a radiant glow. Out on the bay the morning is radiant.

Define radiant. radiant synonyms, radiant pronunciation, radiant translation, English dictionary definition of radiant. adj. 1. Emitting heat or light: a radiant star.

There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word radiant, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

radiant /ˈreɪdɪənt/ adj sending out rays of light; bright; shining characterized by health, intense joy, happiness, etc emitted or propagated by or as radiation; radiated: radiant heat sending out …

RADIANT definition: emitting rays of light; shining; bright. See examples of radiant used in a sentence.

RADIANT meaning: 1 : having or showing an attractive quality of happiness, love, health, etc.; 2 : bright and shining

Something that shines or glows is radiant, and you can also describe anything that's bright as radiant, like a smile or a powerful emotion ("a radiant sense of happiness").