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What is the adjective for radiant?

What's the adjective for radiant? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb radiate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

radiant

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

bright, brilliant, shining, luminous, glowing, dazzling, incandescent, lustrous, beaming, shiny, refulgent, gleaming, effulgent, lucent, lambent, candescent, sheeny, fulgent, sparkling, clear, bedazzling, lucid, glittering, splendid, illuminated, ablaze, flashing, sunny, shimmering, luminescent, lighted, resplendent, irradiant, lit, coruscating, glorious, glowy, radiating, splendent, phosphorescent, scintillating, glistening, blazing, aglow, vivid, glossy, intense, light, glaring, twinkling … more

Examples:

“Her image glittered in his mind, a radiant light that would guide him back out of the terror of his dreams and into the sane, rational world of the living.”

“Above the nunnery was the clear and radiant sky, very blue and all full of floating clouds.”

“There was a radiant glow on her face as she warmly embraced Bornani.”

radiate

Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
(botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
(biology) Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
(zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.

radiatiform

(botany) Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower.

radiationproof

Resistant to the harmful effects of radiation.

radiative

(physics) of, relating to, or occurring through radiation
Synonyms:

radiational, radiant, radiating

Examples:

“One-half of the general problem of stellar atmospheres revolves around the solution of the equation of radiative transfer.”

“Our results show that the conductive heat transfer model and the convective plus radiative heat transfer model best represent the data measured.”

“Hence, saying that a 5000-kg dinosaur has to avoid the sun means that it has to reduce radiative heat load during a whole solar day.”

radiationlike