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RADIANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Radiating or as if radiating light
Example:
a refulgent sunset
Synonyms:
beaming; beamy; effulgent; radiant; refulgent
Classified under:
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:
The production of light by certain living organisms, including fireflies and phytoplankton, by the conversion of chemical to radiant energy.
(Bioluminescence, NCI Thesaurus)
Silver's face was radiant.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between red and yellow, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 590 to 630 nanometers; any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium lightness and moderate saturation.
(Orange, NCI Thesaurus)
His face became radiant.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky.
(Blue, NCI Thesaurus)
The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass.
(Green, NCI Thesaurus)
Such had he imagined the angels, and such he had tried to paint them in the Beaulieu missals; but here there was something human, were it only in the battered hawk and discolored dress, which sent a tingle and thrill through his nerves such as no dream of radiant and stainless spirit had ever yet been able to conjure up.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What should I tell?” she answered, with her radiant smile.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And then a radiant glory shone on the wall, and up through the other vision, displacing it, glimmered Her pale face under its crown of golden hair, remote and inaccessible as a star.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees. [The moon] I gazed with a kind of wonder.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
