radiate

radiate is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
2. intransitive verb. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
3. transitive verb. To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.
4. transitive verb. To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.
5. adjective. Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.
6. adjective. Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
7. adjective. Belonging to the Radiata.
8. noun. One of the Radiata.
9. verb. send out real or metaphoric rays

   "She radiates happiness"

10. verb. spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

    "The plants on this island diversified"

    Synonyms: diversify

11. verb. issue or emerge in rays or waves

    "Heat radiated from the metal box"

12. verb. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

    "She was beaming with joy"

    "Her face radiated with happiness"

    Synonyms: beam, glow, shine

13. verb. cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays

    "The sun is radiating"

14. verb. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

    "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"

    Synonyms: beam, glow, shine

15. verb. extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

    "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"

    "This plants radiate spines in all directions"

    Synonyms: ray

16. verb. send out rays or waves

    "The sun radiates heat"

17. adjective. having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies
18. adjective. arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center

    "radial symmetry"

    "a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"

    Synonyms: radial, stellate

Synonyms

diversify, beam, glow, shine, ray, radial, stellate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in radiate:

airdate, tiaraed

Common word forms

radiated, radiates, radiately, radiating, radiateness

Words from these letters

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