| 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" |
| glow | | |
| n. (state) | 1. freshness, glow | an alert and refreshed state. |
| ~ good health, healthiness | the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. glow, luminescence | light from nonthermal sources. |
| ~ brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, brightness, light | the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 3. glow, incandescence | the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised. |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| n. (feeling) | 4. glow | a feeling of considerable warmth.; "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 5. glow | a steady even light without flames. |
| ~ sky glow | illumination of the night sky in urban areas. |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 6. glow, glowing, radiance | the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface. |
| ~ aureole, corona | the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse. |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| n. (attribute) | 7. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency | an appearance of reflected light. |
| ~ effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, radiance | the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| v. (perception) | 8. glow | emit a steady even light without flames.; "The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden" |
| ~ radiate | cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays.; "The sun is radiating" |
| ~ fluoresce | exhibit or undergo fluorescence. |
| ~ flush | glow or cause to glow with warm color or light.; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor" |
| v. (perception) | 9. beam, glow, radiate, shine | have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| v. (weather) | 10. burn, glow | shine intensely, as if with heat.; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" |
| ~ beam, shine | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" |
| ~ gutter | burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker.; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground" |
| v. (emotion) | 11. glow | be exuberant or high-spirited.; "Make the people's hearts glow" |
| ~ feel, experience | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
| v. (emotion) | 12. beam, glow, radiate, shine | experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" |
| ~ feel, experience | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
| illuminate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. illume, illuminate, illumine, light, light up | make lighter or brighter.; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" |
| ~ lighten up, lighten | become lighter.; "The room lightened up" |
| ~ floodlight | illuminate with floodlights. |
| ~ spotlight | illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out | make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" |
| ~ clarify, clear up, elucidate | make clear and (more) comprehensible.; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" |
| v. (creation) | 3. illuminate | add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, beautify, embellish | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" |
| ~ miniate, rubricate | decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red.; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" |
| ~ paint | make a painting of.; "He painted his mistress many times" |
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