riant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness
    laughing.
    • laughing children

WordNet

Ri`ant" adjective
Etymology
F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L. ridere.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913