About The Word Riant
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Riant
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What's The Definition Of Riant?
[adj] showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Riant: happy | laughing(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Riant: See Also | 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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