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BRIGHT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Likely to turn out well in the future
Example:
a hopeful new singer on Broadway
Synonyms:
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Similar:
auspicious (auguring favorable circumstances and good luck)
Derivation:
brightness (intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having lots of light either natural or artificial
Example:
a stage bright with spotlights
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Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Derivation:
brightness (the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
Example:
a bright sunlit room
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Adjectives
Similar:
twinkling (shining intermittently with a sparkling light)
silver; silvern; silvery (having the white lustrous sheen of silver)
shimmery (glistening tremulously)
self-luminous (having in itself the property of emitting light)
satiny; silken; silklike; silky; sleek; slick (having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light)
noctilucent (shining or glowing by night)
lurid (shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke)
iridescent; nacreous; opalescent; opaline; pearlescent (having a play of lustrous rainbow colors)
glistening; glossy; lustrous; sheeny; shining; shiny (reflecting light)
glimmery (shining softly and intermittently)
ardent (glowing or shining like fire)
brilliant (full of light; shining intensely)
bright as a new penny ((metaphor) shining brightly)
blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary (shining intensely)
beaming; beamy; effulgent; radiant; refulgent (radiating or as if radiating light)
beadlike; beady; buttonlike; buttony (small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button)
aglitter; coruscant; fulgid; glinting; glistering; glittering; glittery; scintillant; scintillating; sparkly (having brief brilliant points or flashes of light)
aglow; lambent; lucent; luminous (softly bright or radiant)
agleam; gleaming; nitid (bright with a steady but subdued shining)
Attribute:
brightness; brightness level; light; luminance; luminosity; luminousness (the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light)
Antonym:
dull (emitting or reflecting very little light)
Derivation:
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not made dim or less bright
Example:
surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed
Synonyms:
bright; undimmed
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Adjectives
Derivation:
brightness (the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Having strong or striking color
Example:
a bird with vivid plumage
Synonyms:
bright; brilliant; vivid
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Adjectives
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)
Derivation:
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Splendid
Example:
the bright pageantry of court
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glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Characterized by happiness or gladness
Example:
all the world seems bright and gay
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happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Characterized by quickness and ease in learning
Example:
smart children talk earlier than the average
Synonyms:
bright; smart
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intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Derivation:
brightness (intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
Example:
shiny black patents
Synonyms:
bright; burnished; lustrous; shining; shiny
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Adjectives
Similar:
polished (perfected or made shiny and smooth)
Derivation:
brightness (the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Clear and sharp and ringing
Example:
the brilliant sound of the trumpets
Synonyms:
bright; brilliant
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Adjectives
Similar:
reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With brightness
Example:
the windows glowed jewel bright
Synonyms:
bright; brightly; brilliantly
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Context examples:
The research team discovered NGTS-1b using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an array of telescopes physically located in Chile, which was designed to search for planets around bright stars.
(Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet, Wikinews)
Because snow and ice reflect more light than vegetation or water, the spring is brighter than the summer or autumn, when there is much less snow and ice.
(Earthshine, NASA)
Rhea, like many moons in the outer solar system, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight.
(Regarding Rhea, NASA)
For years I’ve been dreaming of the bright green fields and the hedges of England.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In many ways, the spirit of the season is brighter this month, for career matters were your first priority on your list to address.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
On the whole, and between ourselves, it will be a brighter house without him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She would talk, a warm human being, in her quick, bright way, and, most important of all, she would catch glimpses of the real Martin Eden.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He then desired me to draw my scimitar, which, although it had got some rust by the sea water, was, in most parts, exceeding bright.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A shock of very bright red hair grew low over his eyes and forehead.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest ornament.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
