RADIANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiant mean? 

• RADIANT (adjective)
  The adjective RADIANT has 1 sense:

1. radiating or as if radiating light

  Familiarity information: RADIANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Radiating or as if radiating light

Synonyms:

beaming; beamy; effulgent; radiant; refulgent

Context example:

a refulgent sunset

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

Derivation:

radiance; radiancy (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)

radiate (cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays)

radiate (send out rays or waves)

 Context examples 

As I was saying, up here I thought all men and women were brilliant and radiant.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was then calm, radiant sunset.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave- girt land.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“They have dreams,” I interrupted, “radiant, flashing dreams—”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Injury to tissues caused by contact with dry heat, moist heat, flames, chemicals, electricity, friction or radiant and electromagnetic energy.

(Burn, Food and Drug Administration)

A unit of radiant exposure equal to radiant energy of one joule arriving upon a surface area of one square centimeter.

(Joule per Square Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus)

How much more a murdered that could destroy radiant innocence!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then she woke, bright and radiant and we go on our way and soon reach the Pass.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This was a god indeed, a love-god, a warm and radiant god, in whose light White Fang's nature expanded as a flower expands under the sun.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The rod-like part of certain heaters from which the radiant energy is released.

(Heater Rod Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)