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brightadjective giving off or reflecting much lightin the desert the sun was so bright that it hurt my eyes the moon is bright tonight beaming, bedazzling, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hotagleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winkingburnished, polished, shinedsuperbright, ultrabright dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber(or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlitcloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shadygray(also grey), leaden, pale, palish filled with much lightthe display windows of department stores are especially bright at Christmastime ablaze, alight, brightened, illuminated, illumined, light, lightsome, lit(or lighted) floodlit(also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted(or spotlit)ignited, kindledmoonlit, shiny, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, dimmed, dusk, dusky, lightless, pitch-black, pitch-dark, tenebrous, unlit gloomy, somber(or sombre), sunlesscloudy, murky, obscured, shadowlike, shadowygray(also grey), leaden, palelightproof having or showing a good mood or dispositionalways walks into work with a bright smile on his face blithe, blithesome, buoyant, canty(British dialect), cheerful, cheery, chipper, eupeptic, gay, gladsome, lightsome, sunny, upbeat, winsome hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguineanimated, chirpy, jaunty, lilting, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivaciouscarefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcernedboon, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthfulblissful, delighted, glad, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, tickledbeaming, grinning, laughing, smiling dour, gloomy, glum, morose, saturnine, sulky, sullen joyless, sad, unhappy, unsatisfieddull, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpidblue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, hangdog, heavyhearted, inconsolable, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mirthless, sorrowful having or showing quickness of minda company that is always looking for bright, ambitious college graduates alert, brainy, brilliant, clever, exceptional, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart apt, ingenious, resourcefulacute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wisecerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-readeducated, informed, schooled, skilled, trainedcreative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wisecrafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wilylogical, rational, reasonable airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey(also dopy), dorky(slang), dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless feebleminded, simplemindedboobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, sillyignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinkingabsurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky(also whacky), zany having qualities which inspire hopepredicted a bright future for the young math whiz auspicious, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothingassured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitatingbeamish, bullish, eupepticfavorable, good bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious cheerless, comfortlessdoubtful, dubious, uncertainbearish, grim, negative, unfavorablefunereal, glum, gray(also grey), miserable, wretched pointing toward a happy outcomeall the signs are bright right now for an economic boom auspicious, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providentialadvantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious unfortunate, unhappy, unluckycalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinousbaleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening serving to lift one's spiritsa bright and beautiful morning to begin planting our garden cheerful, cheering, cheery, gay, glad gladdening, heartening, heartwarminggleaming, radiant, sparkling bleak, cheerless, dark, depressing, dismal, dreary, gloomy, gray(also grey) discouraging, dishearteningcolorless, drab, dull, lackluster, lusterlessblack, desolate, dispiriting standing above others in rank, importance, or achievementa bright new star on the operatic scene astral, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, luminous, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, preeminent, prestigious, redoubtable, signal, star, superior celebrated, exalted, famed, famous, glorious, honored, renowned, reputableinfamous, notoriousdominant, paramount, predominant insignificant, minor, unimportantaverage, inferior, mediocreobscure, uncelebrated, unsung having or being an outward sign of good feelings (as of love, confidence, or happiness)a room full of summer interns with bright, eager faces aglow, beaming, glowing, radiant, sunny brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, gleaming, luminous, refulgent, shining, starryblithe, blithesome, cheerful, cheery, chipper, gay, gladsome, lightsome, merry, mirthful, optimistic, upbeatjocund, jovial, laughing, smilingblooming, rosyblissful, chuffed(British), delighted, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, thankful, tickled blank, flat, listless, stoic(or stoical), unemotionalblack, dark, darkening, depressing, dismal, gloomy, glum, gray(also grey), melancholy, sullenfrowning, glaring, glowering, lowering(also louring), scowling not stormy or cloudywe'll have a picnic on the next bright day clear, cloudless, fair, sunny, sunshiny, unclouded balmy, clement, gentle, mild, moderate, temperatecalm, halcyon, peaceful, placid, serene, tranquilfine, pleasant bleak, cloudy, dirty, foul, nasty, overcast, rainy, raw, rough, squally, stormy, sunless, tempestuous, turbulent harsh, inclement, severeblustering, blustery, breezy, gustyfoggy, hazy, misty, murky, soupy brightadverbin a manner marked by the shining or reflecting of much lightthe storm passed, and once again the sun shone bright brightly, brilliantly, dazzlingly, fulgently, glowingly, incandescently, lambently, luminously, lustrously, radiantly, splendidly blazingly, burningly, flaminglyblindingly, flaringly, flickeringly, glaringly, glitteringly, opalescentlypellucidly dimly, dully darkly, duskily, gloomily, murkily, obscurely, somberlycloudily, shadily, shadowily adj.bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous mean shining or glowing with light.bright implies emitting or reflecting a high degree of light.brilliant implies intense often sparkling brightness.radiant stresses the emission or seeming emission of rays of light.luminous implies emission of steady, suffused, glowing light by reflection or in surrounding darkness.lustrous stresses an even, rich light from a surface that reflects brightly without glittering. before the 12th century |