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radiant

adj
/ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/

Etymology

From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).

  1. derived from radiāns
  2. inherited from radyant

Definitions

  1. Radiating light and/or heat.

    • the radiant sun
    • They in ranks / Sat all, where ſtood the fiery ſteeds of each, / And where his radiant arms lay on the field.

  2. Emitted as radiation.

  3. Beaming with vivacity and happiness.

    • a radiant face
    • Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Strikingly beautiful.

      • And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.

    2. Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.

    3. Giving off rays.

      • the sun radiant
      • a crown radiant

    4. Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous…

      Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

    5. A point source from which radiation is emitted.

    6. The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.

    7. A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived…

      A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at radiant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at radiant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at radiant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA