riant

2 definitions found

riant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Riant \Ri`ant"\, a. [F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L.
     ridere.]
     Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful
     to the view, as a landscape.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the
           other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against
           anything light and riant.                --Burke.
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riant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  riant
      adj 1: showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness;
             "laughing children" [syn: laughing(a), riant]