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Riant   Listen
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Riant  adj.  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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... [U.S.]; 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[obs3], jaunty, canty[obs3]; hedonic[obs3]; riant[obs3]; sprightly, sprightful[obs3]; spry; spirited, spiritful[obs3]; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. sunny, palmy; hopeful &c. 858. merry as a cricket, merry as a grig[obs3], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Riant" :   happy, laughing


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