Riant

Ri`ant´

a.

1.

Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.

In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant.

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Adj.

1.

riant - showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children"

Synonyms: laughing

happy, laughing

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