[ adj ] showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness <adj.all> laughing children
Riant \Ri`ant"\, a. [F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L. ridere.] 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.