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Bright   /braɪt/   Listen
Bright

adjective
1.
Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts.  "A bright sunlit room"  Antonym: dull.
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"  Antonym: dimmed.
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



... through his weary body. Bright recollections and impressions flock towards him like spirits of light—he can hear the rushing sound of their wings—he calls to them for aid, and they encircle him round; they struggle with the spirits ...
— The Great Hunger • Johan Bojer
... also very bright. It probably contains Norman fragments. All the windows except the fifth ...
— The Cathedral Church of York - Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief - History of the Archi-Episcopal See • A. Clutton-Brock
... why, but these words sounded disagreeably to Esperance, who turned quickly. But Fagiano was in the shadow, and Esperance saw only his eyes, which were very bright. The Vicomte began to think his nerves were sadly out ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina
... the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like ...
— Mysticism in English Literature • Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
... to rise from the divan. An overpowering torpor, though not disagreeable, was benumbing her whole body, and before her eyes bright lights seemed to float, succeeded by thick darkness. Her head turned round and round ... she strove to cry out, but her voice stuck in her throat: her body jerked with a feeble convulsive movement. She heard indistinctly an ...
— Messengers of Evil - Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre


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