radiant

Plural: radiants

Adjective Satellite

• radiating or as if radiating light
  • "a radiant sunrise"

Adj

• Radiating light and/or heat.
• Emitted as radiation.
• Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
• Strikingly beautiful.
• Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
• Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
• Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

Noun

• A point from which rays or lines spread out.
• A point source from which radiation is emitted.
• The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
• A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

Examples

• a radiant face
• Every tile seemed a radiant point of potential for her next big play.
• the radiant sun
• the sun radiant;  a crown radiant

Synonyms

beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent

Anagrams of radiant