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ADJECTIVE | 1 | bright | Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts |
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2 | bright, brilliant, vivid | Having striking color | |
3 | bright, smart | Characterized by quickness and ease in learning | |
4 | bright | Having lots of light either natural or artificial | |
5 | bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny | Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing | |
6 | bright | Splendid | |
7 | bright, undimmed | Not made dim or less bright | |
8 | bright, brilliant | Clear and sharp and ringing | |
9 | bright | Characterized by happiness or gladness | |
10 | bright, shining, shiny, sunshiny, sunny | Abounding with sunlight | |
11 | bright, promising | Full or promise | |
ADVERB | 1 | bright, brilliantly, brightly | With brightness |
Sounds | bray't |
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Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts. |
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Examples | "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room" |
Attribute of | luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light |
Similar | agleam, gleaming, nitid; aglow, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous; aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly; beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike; beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent; blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary; blinking; bright as a new penny; brilliant; ardent; flashing; glimmering, glimmery; glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining; iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent; lurid; noctilucent; shimmery; silver, silvern, silvery; twinkling |
See also | polished |
Contrary | dull |
Adverbs | brightly |
Meaning | Having striking color. |
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Examples | "bright greens" |
Synonyms | brilliant, vivid |
Similar to | colorful, colourful |
Meaning | Characterized by quickness and ease in learning. |
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Examples | "some children are brighter in one subject than another" |
Synonyms | smart |
Similar to | intelligent |
Meaning | Having lots of light either natural or artificial. |
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Examples | "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights" |
Similar to | light |
Meaning | Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing. Reflecting a sheen or glow. |
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Examples | "bright silver candlesticks" |
Synonyms | burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
Similar to | polished |
Meaning | Splendid. |
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Examples | "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court" |
Similar to | glorious |
Meaning | Not made dim or less bright. |
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Synonyms | undimmed |
Contrary | dimmed, dim |
Meaning | Clear and sharp and ringing. |
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Examples | "the bright sound of the trumpet section" |
Synonyms | brilliant |
Similar to | reverberant, ringing |
Meaning | Characterized by happiness or gladness. |
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Examples | "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay" |
Similar to | happy |
Meaning | Abounding with sunlight. |
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Examples | "a bright sunny day" |
Synonyms | shining, shiny, sunshiny, sunny |
Similar to | clear |
Meaning | Full or promise. |
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Examples | "had a bright future in publishing" |
Synonyms | promising |
Similar to | auspicious |
Meaning | With brightness. |
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Examples | "the windows glowed jewel bright" |
Synonyms | brilliantly, brightly |