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Bright   /braɪt/   Listen
Bright

adjective
1.
Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts.  "A bright sunlit room"
2.
Having striking color.  Synonyms: brilliant, vivid.  "Brilliant tapestries" , "A bird with vivid plumage"
3.
Characterized by quickness and ease in learning.  Synonym: smart.  "Smart children talk earlier than the average"
4.
Having lots of light either natural or artificial.  "A stage bright with spotlights"
5.
Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow.  Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny.  "A burnished brass knocker" , "She brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves" , "Rows of shining glasses" , "Shiny black patents"
6.
Splendid.  "A bright moment in history" , "The bright pageantry of court"
7.
Not made dim or less bright.  Synonym: undimmed.  "Surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed"
8.
Clear and sharp and ringing.  Synonym: brilliant.  "The brilliant sound of the trumpets"
9.
Characterized by happiness or gladness.  "All the world seems bright and gay"
10.
Full or promise.  Synonyms: hopeful, promising.  "The scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career" , "A hopeful new singer on Broadway"
adverb
1.
With brightness.  Synonyms: brightly, brilliantly.  "The windows glowed jewel bright"



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"Bright" Quotes from Famous Books



... the wilderness of the world, and now she has become the bright new star of our better destinies! We must ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris

... occupied had been held that morning by the Germans, and the trenches and fields were strewn with their accoutrement. So all the French soldiers who were not serving the guns wandered about seeking souvenirs. They had never a glance for the villages burning crimson in the bright sunight or for the ...
— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis

... not weep any longer but follow my directions. Go into your garden and lift up the little marble slab at the foot of the great myrtle tree. You will find beneath it a crystal vase filled with a bright green liquid. Take it with you and place the thing which is at present most in your thoughts into a bath filled with roses and rub it well with ...
— The Yellow Fairy Book • Various

... all the beaches, sow-thistles, virgin's bower, vanelloe, French willow, euphorbia, and crane's-bill; also cudweed, rushes, bull-rushes, flax, all-heal, American nightshade, knot-grass, brambles, eye-bright, and groundsel; but the species of each are different from any we have in Europe. There is also polypody, spleenwort, and about twenty other different sort of ferns, entirely peculiar to the place, with several sorts of mosses, either rare, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr

... could run everywhere, and he was the brightest, the sharpest, the merriest little fellow that ever kept a respectable cat in trouble with his escapades. That sharp nose of his was everywhere at once, it seemed to me, and those bright eyes were peering into every corner in search of mischief. He trotted about the house with a swaggering impudence, and went to bed in one of the Colonel's shoes if he liked, or played hide and seek in father's hat when ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 20, March 25, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various


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