radiant | Definition of radiant

Synonyms and Antonyms of radiant

1 having or being an outward sign of good feelings (as of love, confidence, or happiness)

she left the interview with a radiant smile on her face, confident she had gotten the job

a radiant bride

Synonyms of radiant

aglow, beaming, bright, glowing, sunny

Words Related to radiant

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

blissful, chuffed [British], delighted, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, thankful, tickled

Near Antonyms of radiant

blank, flat, listless, stoic (or stoical), unemotional

black, 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 statehouse's radiant gold dome

Synonyms of radiant

beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid

Words Related to radiant

ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot

agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking

burnished, polished, shined

superbright, ultrabright

Near Antonyms of radiant

blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit

cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady

gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish

Antonyms of radiant

dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant