Entry Word: radiant

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having or being an outward sign of good feelings (as of love, confidence, or happiness) <left the interview with a radiant smile on her face, confident she had gotten the job> <a radiant bride>

Synonyms aglow, beaming, glowing, sunny

Related Words brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, gleaming, luminous, refulgent, shining, starry; blithe, blithesome, bright, cheerful, cheery, chipper, gay, gladsome, lightsome, merry, mirthful, optimistic, upbeat; jocund, jovial, laughing, smiling; blooming, rosy

Near Antonyms flat, listless, stoic (or stoical), unemotional; dark, darkening, depressing, dismal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), melancholy, sullen; frowning, glaring, glowering, lowering (also louring), scowling

2 giving off or reflecting much light <from the plane we could see the statehouseʼs radiant gold dome> — see bright 1