英语词汇“radiant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

The adjective radiant is useful for describing anything that glows with warmth or light. When you open your eyes on a sunny summer morning and see your curtains glowing with sunlight, you can call them radiant.

Something that shines or glows is radiant, and you can also describe anything that's bright as radiant, like a smile or a powerful emotion ("a radiant sense of happiness"). In science, radiant means "transmitted by radiation," and it usually describes heat, like the radiant heat from an oven. The Latin root is radiantem, "shining," and sometime around 1500 it started being used to describe physical beauty, which Shakespeare did in "Twelfth Night": "Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty..."

WORD FAMILY

radiant: radiantly

USAGE EXAMPLES

The gigantism of the ’30s and ’40s lives on in the massing of all those radiant beauties, moving as one.

Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016)

“Perhaps we focused too much on the radiant image of humanity, on the good,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Wall Street Journal(Dec 25, 2016)

For many people in America’s far north, the old-fashioned wood stove — crackling and radiant, and usually cast-iron black — is as Alaskan as it gets.

New York Times(Dec 25, 2016)

adj radiating or as if radiating light

a radiant sunrise

Syn

beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent
bright

emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts

单词	radiant
释义	radiant (once / 466 pages) adj The adjective radiant is useful for describing anything that glows with warmth or light. When you open your eyes on a sunny summer morning and see your curtains glowing with sunlight, you can call them radiant. Something that shines or glows is radiant, and you can also describe anything that's bright as radiant, like a smile or a powerful emotion ("a radiant sense of happiness"). In science, radiant means "transmitted by radiation," and it usually describes heat, like the radiant heat from an oven. The Latin root is radiantem, "shining," and sometime around 1500 it started being used to describe physical beauty, which Shakespeare did in "Twelfth Night": "Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty..." WORD FAMILY radiant: radiantly USAGE EXAMPLES The gigantism of the ’30s and ’40s lives on in the massing of all those radiant beauties, moving as one. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) “Perhaps we focused too much on the radiant image of humanity, on the good,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Wall Street Journal(Dec 25, 2016) For many people in America’s far north, the old-fashioned wood stove — crackling and radiant, and usually cast-iron black — is as Alaskan as it gets. New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) adj radiating or as if radiating light a radiant sunrise Syn beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent bright emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
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