| bright | | |
| adj. | 1. bright | emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts.; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room" |
| ~ agleam, gleaming, nitid | bright with a steady but subdued shining.; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon" |
| ~ aglow, lambent, lucent, luminous | softly bright or radiant.; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" |
| ~ aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly, scintillating | having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" |
| ~ beadlike, beady, buttonlike, buttony | small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes" |
| ~ effulgent, radiant, refulgent, beamy, beaming | radiating or as if radiating light.; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" |
| ~ blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary, dazzling | shining intensely.; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" |
| ~ bright as a new penny | (metaphor) shining brightly. |
| ~ brilliant | full of light; shining intensely.; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers" |
| ~ ardent | glowing or shining like fire.; "from rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes"; "frightened by his ardent burning eyes" |
| ~ glimmery | shining softly and intermittently.; "glimmery candlelight" |
| ~ glistening, sheeny, shiny, glossy, lustrous, shining | reflecting light.; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" |
| ~ opalescent, opaline, pearlescent, iridescent, nacreous | having a play of lustrous rainbow colors.; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster" |
| ~ lurid | shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke.; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames" |
| ~ noctilucent | shining or glowing by night.; "the noctilucent eyes of a cat" |
| ~ satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick | having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light.; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" |
| ~ self-luminous | having in itself the property of emitting light. |
| ~ shimmery | glistening tremulously.; "the shimmery surface of the lake"; "a dress of shimmery satin" |
| ~ silver, silvern, silvery | having the white lustrous sheen of silver.; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen" |
| ~ twinkling | shining intermittently with a sparkling light.; "twinkling stars" |
| adj. | 2. bright, brilliant, vivid | having striking color.; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" |
| ~ colorful, colourful | having striking color.; "colorful autumn leaves" |
| adj. | 3. bright, smart | characterized by quickness and ease in learning.; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" |
| ~ intelligent | having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree.; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" |
| adj. | 4. bright | having lots of light either natural or artificial.; "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights" |
| ~ light | characterized by or emitting light.; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light" |
| adj. | 5. bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny | made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow.; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" |
| ~ polished | perfected or made shiny and smooth.; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver" |
| adj. | 6. bright | splendid.; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court" |
| ~ glorious | having or deserving or conferring glory.; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature" |
| adj. | 7. bright, undimmed | not made dim or less bright.; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed" |
| adj. | 8. bright, brilliant | clear and sharp and ringing.; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" |
| ~ reverberant | having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected.; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" |
| adj. | 9. bright | characterized by happiness or gladness.; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay" |
| ~ happy | enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure.; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" |
| adj. | 10. bright, hopeful, promising | full or promise.; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway" |
| ~ auspicious | auguring favorable circumstances and good luck.; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign" |
| adv. | 11. bright, brightly, brilliantly | with brightness.; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright" |
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