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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--rident This week's theme: words to describe people. rident (RYD-uhnt) adjective Laughing; cheerful. [From Latin ridere (to laugh) which is also the source of ridiculous, deride, and risible.] -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Mamma was gracious and happy. Hetty was radiant and rident." William Makepeace Thackeray; The Virginians; 1859. X-Bonus A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)

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