Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sending forth radiant light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Emitting rays of light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Irradiating or illuminating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
radiates light
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Castle was beginning to understand they had been hit by translucent, pure impulses of irradiant energy.
The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010
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The most psychedelic of the Institute for Figuring reefs, the Plastic Exploding Inevitable features irradiant pink "sand," miniature white plastic spires, a grove of wine-glass trees, and a gorgeous reef panorama painted on a take-out box by Alicia Escott.
Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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The most psychedelic of the Institute for Figuring reefs, the Plastic Exploding Inevitable features irradiant pink "sand," miniature white plastic spires, a grove of wine-glass trees, and a gorgeous reef panorama painted on a take-out box by Alicia Escott.
The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Dodie Bellamy 2008
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In emblems, it often indicates the irradiant, mystic 'Centre'.
The AOXOMOXOA song cycle David Dodd 2005
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Along the horizon to the east the sun, irradiant and magnified, lay low over the heaving seas.
The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��
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His towering intellect, polished with education, instructed in the Bible, and irradiant with the Holy Spirit, gave him a wide horizon.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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Missy's eyelids fluttered; the street lamp's halo grew more and more irradiant; gleamed out to illumine, resplendently, a slender girl in white standing on a lighted stage, gazing with luminous eyes out on a darkened auditorium, a house as hushed as when little Eva dies.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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While he preached, the eternal world seemed irradiant about him.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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Missy, with Poppylinda purring beside her, found this mysterious, irradiant feeling flowing out of her heart almost as tangible as a third live being in her quaint little room.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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She had often wished that, by some magic, the world might be enabled to spin out its whole time in such a gossamer, irradiant sheen as this -- a sort of moon-haunted night-without-end, keeping you tingling with beautiful, blurred, indescribable feelings.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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