Riant

Definition: Riant

Riant

Adjective

1. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing children".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "riant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Etymology: Riant \Ri`ant"\, adjective. [French expression riant, present participle of rire to laugh, from Latin expression ridere.]. (Websters 1913)

"Riant" is a common misspelling or typo for: giant, rain, rainy, rant, recant, rent, roan.

Synonym: Riant

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Crosswords: Riant

French (laughing).

Books

• Le monde riant de Zeimert (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, set up, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

засмян (laughing). (various references)

Farsi 

متبسم , خندان , دلگشا (Cheery), بشاش (Cheerful, Jocund, Roseate). (various references)

Pig Latin

iantray

Romanian

vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton). (various references)

Russian 

улыбающийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nasmejan (smiling). (various references)

Swedish

gladlynt (cheerful, gay, good humoured, good-humored, jovial, lightsome, merry). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "riant": riantly. (additional references)

Words ending with "riant": covariant, euphoriant, inebriant, invariant, luxuriant, variant, vicariant. (additional references)

Words containing "riant": euphoriants, inebriants, invariants, luxuriantly, perianth, perianths, variants, vicariants. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: train.

-1 letter: airn, airt, anti, rain, rani, rant, tain, tarn.

-2 letters: ain, air, ait, ani, ant, art, nit, ran, rat, ria, rin, tan, tar, tin.

-3 letters: ai, an, ar, at, in, it, na, ta, ti.

+1 letter: antiar, aroint, gratin, instar, martin, nutria, qintar, ratine, rating, ration, ratlin, retain, retina, santir, strain, taring, trains, trinal.

+2 letters: airting, anestri, antiair, antiars, anticar, antifur, antired, antiwar, antsier, arenite, aroints, artisan, atropin, brisant, cantrip, carotin, carting, ceratin, certain, crating, creatin, curtain, darting, detrain, diatron, entrain, fainter, farting, frantic, gastrin, granita, granite, gratine, grating, gratins, hairnet, indraft, inearth, inertia, infarct, infract, ingraft, ingrate, instars, inthral, intrant, intreat, iterant, janitor, karting, keratin, latrine, mantric, martian, marting, martini, martins, migrant, minaret, narcist, nastier, natrium, nattier, nitrate, nutrias, orating, oration, painter, parting, pertain, prating, puritan, qintars, quintar, radiant, rafting, raiment, rainout, ranting, ratfink, ratines, ratings, rations, ratline, ratlins, ratting, reliant, repaint, retains, retinae, retinal, retinas, retrain, retsina, riantly, ringtaw, ruinate, santirs, spirant, stainer, staring, stearin, strains, taborin, tacrine, tamarin, tangier, tantric, tarnish, tarring, tarting, taurine, tawnier, tearing, terrain, tertian, tinware, titrant, tracing, trading, trained, trainee, trainer, transit, trenail, triazin, trinary, tsarina, tzarina, unitard, unitary, uranite, urinate, variant, varmint, vibrant, vitrain.

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