Glowy vs Radiant - What's the difference?
glowy | radiant |
glowing
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 27, author=Maureen Dowd, title=Desperately Seeking Street Cred, work=New York Times
, passage=Hillary grows more and more glowy as Obama grows more and more wan. }}Radiating light and/or heat.
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Emitted as radiation.
Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
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*:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?! You?! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
(lb) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
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(lb) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
A point source from which radiation is emitted.
(astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
As adjectives the difference between glowy and radiant
is that glowy is glowing while radiant is radiating light and/or heat.As a noun radiant is
a point source from which radiation is emitted.glowy
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