Riant
Pronunciation : Ri`ant"
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L. ridere.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913