riant

English

Etymology

From French riant.

Adjective

riant (comparative more riant, superlative most riant)

  1. Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
  2. Of a place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French riant, from Middle French riant, from Old French riant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riˈɑnt/
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  • Hyphenation: ri‧ant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

riant (comparative rianter, superlative riantst)

  1. (chiefly of buildings, valuable possessions and money) lavish, splendid, spacious, luxurious
  2. (sports) decisive, overwhelming, convincing
  3. (archaic) cheerful, riant

Inflection

Inflection of riant
uninflected riant
inflected riante
comparative rianter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial riantrianterhet riantst
het riantste
indefinite m./f. sing. rianteriantereriantste
n. sing. riantrianterriantste
plural rianteriantereriantste
definite rianteriantereriantste
partitive riantsrianters

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁi.jɑ̃/
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  • Rhymes: -jɑ̃

Participle

riant

  1. present participle of rire
  2. (preceded by en) gerund of rire

Adjective

riant (feminine riante, masculine plural riants, feminine plural riantes)

  1. laughing (in the process of laughing)

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riˈant/

Verb

riant

  1. present participle of rire

Adjective

riant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular riant)

  1. laughing
  2. (by extension) joyous; happy

Declension

Welsh

Noun

riant

  1. Soft mutation of rhiant.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhiant riant unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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