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Bright
/bɹaɪt/
An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
📖 Definitions of "Bright"
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An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
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Splendour; brightness
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A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
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(in the plural) The high-beam intensity of motor vehicle headlamps.
"Your brights are on."
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Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
"Could you please dim the light? It's far too bright."
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Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
"He's very bright. He was able to solve the problem without my help."
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Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
"The orange and blue walls of the sitting room were much brighter than the dull grey walls of the kitchen."
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Happy, in good spirits.
"I woke up today feeling so bright that I decided to have a little dance."
🔄 Synonyms of "Bright"
30 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ardent | Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm. |
| lurid | Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex. |
| lucent | Emitting light; shining, luminous. |
| lightnoun | (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light. |
| auspicious | Of good omen; indicating future success. |
| lustrous | As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant. |
| glorious | Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory. |
| clearverb | Transparent in colour. |
| lambent | Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat. |
| luminous | Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining. |
| vividnoun | (of an image or color) Bright, intense, or colourful. |
| nitid | Bright; lustrous; shining. |
| intelligentnoun | Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright. |
| dazzlingnoun | Extremely bright, especially so as to blind the eyes temporarily; bright to the degree that dazzles. |
| fulgent | Shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| scintillating | (figurative) Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty. |
| fulgid | Scintillant, coruscant; marked by fleeting flashes of radiant light. |
| brilliantnoun | Highly intelligent. |
| iridescent | (not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic. |
| radiantnoun | Radiating light and/or heat. |
| blazingnoun | Of tremendous intensity, heat (thermal energy) or fervor; white-hot. |
| happyverb | Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. |
| reverberant | Tending to reverberate. |
| beamingnoun | Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion. |
| refulgent | Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly. |
↔️ Antonyms of "Bright"
Words with the opposite meaning.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bright"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| shinynoun | Reflecting light. |
| shiningverb | Emitting light. |
| beamynoun | Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining. |
| aglow | (sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant |
| effulgent | (literary, also figuratively) Radiant, resplendent, shining. |
| glowingverb | That glows or glow. |
| fulgentnoun | Shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| refulgent | Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly. |
| luminous | Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining. |
| lucentnoun | Emitting light; shining, luminous. |
| nitid | Bright; lustrous; shining. |
| lustrous | As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant. |
| brilliant | Highly intelligent. |
| agleam | Glowing with subdued light. |
| gleamingverb | Having a bright sheen. |
| glisteningnoun | The appearance of something that glistens. |
| glarynoun | Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining. |
| fulgidnoun | Scintillant, coruscant; marked by fleeting flashes of radiant light. |
| bright as a new penny | (simile) Synonym of bright as a button. |
| glistering | Glistening, glittering, gleaming, shining. |
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