Words that rhyme with irradiant

adj 1: completely enveloping; "the ambient air"; "ambient sound"; "the ambient temperature"

adj 1: suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; "a convenient excuse for not going" [ant: inconvenient] 2: large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense); "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions" [syn: commodious, convenient] [ant: incommodious]

adj 1: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" [syn: aberrant, deviant, deviate] n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [syn: pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate]

adj 1: not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children" [ant: obedient] 2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient, unruly]

adj 1: serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient" [ant: inexpedient] 2: appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" n 1: a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

n 1: a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension 2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient" [syn: gradient, slope]

adj 1: only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: incipient, inchoate]

adj 1: not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone" [ant: convenient] 2: not conveniently timed; "an early departure is inconvenient for us"

adj 1: not suitable or advisable; "an inexpedient tactic" [ant: expedient] 2: not appropriate to the purpose [syn: inexpedient, unwise]

adj 1: marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant]

adj 1: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are soft on crime" [syn: indulgent, lenient, soft] 2: not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"; "an easy penalty" 3: characterized by tolerance and mercy

adj 1: dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke [ant: disobedient]

adj 1: infinitely wise [syn: all-knowing, omniscient]

adj 1: characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; "clear mind"; "a percipient author" [syn: clear, percipient] n 1: a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses [syn: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder]

adj 1: perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere

adj 1: radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" [syn: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent]

n 1: a person who receives something [syn: recipient, receiver] 2: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: recipient role, recipient]

adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious, sapient]

adj 1: compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw 2: serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime" [syn: implemental, instrumental, subservient] 3: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes- man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient" [syn: slavish, subservient, submissive]

adj 1: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind [syn: transeunt, transient] [ant: immanent, subjective] 2: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious] n 1: one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers" 2: (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

adj 1: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger- on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy]

n 1: (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant

n 1: a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service

adj 1: in anticipation [syn: anticipatory, prevenient]