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Riant

Riant Meaning & Definition
Riant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Riant?

[adj] showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Riant: happy | laughing(a)

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Riant In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 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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