radiant - Word of the Day - Wed Aug 28, 2024 word of the day Entry posted by Myr in Word of the Day August 28 213 views Share https://gayauthors.org/blogs/entry/23161-radiant-word-of-the-day-wed-aug-28-2024/ More sharing options... Followers 5 Quote radiant - (adj): sending out light; shining or glowing brightly; showing great happiness. Expand Quote Her radiant smile lit up the room. Expand 1 4 1
Site Moderator Popular Comment drpaladin 82,260 Posted August 28 Site Moderator Popular Comment From the Latin radiare, meaning to beam or shine. 6
sandrewn 22,508 Posted August 28 The adjective radiant is useful for describing anything that glows with warmth or light. When you open your eyes on a sunny summer morning and see your curtains glowing with sunlight, you can call them radiant. 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"). In science, radiant means "transmitted by radiation," and it usually describes heat, like the radiant heat from an oven. The Latin root is radiantem, "shining," and sometime around 1500 it started being used to describe physical beauty, which Shakespeare did in "Twelfth Night": "Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty..." Definitions of radiant adjective radiating or as if radiating light “a radiant sunrise” synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent bright emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts Radiant - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com I have nothing spectacular for you today. However, I was impressed by the following, not so little tidbit!! Radiant synonyms - 2 959 Words and Phrases for Radiant Have a nice day and enjoy this golden oldie, When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) (With Intro) - YouTube 4
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