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Bright

adjective

1.

Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts. "A bright sunlit room"

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"

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

... Venetia, with great energy; 'never; you know not my mother. Was she stern and cold when she visited each night in secret your portrait?' said Venetia, looking round upon her astonished father, with her bright grey eye. 'Was she stern and cold when she wept over your poems, those poems whose characters your own hand had traced? Was she stern and cold when she hung a withered wreath on your bridal bed, the bed to which I owe my miserable being? Oh, no, my father! ...

— Venetia • Benjamin Disraeli

... long swells of the ocean. Upon elevated points upon this road, farm lands and forests could be seen extending in every direction. But there was nothing in the landscape which impressed itself more obtrusively upon the attention of the traveler than the road itself. White in the bright sunlight and gray under the shadows of the clouds, it was the one thing to be seen which seemed to have a decided purpose. Northward or southward, toward the gap in the long line of mountains or toward the wood-encircled town in the valley, it was always ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... officer is in appearance the least prepossessing of the Confederate generals. He is very thin; he stoops, and has a sickly, cadaverous, haggard appearance, rather plain features, bushy black eyebrows which unite in a tuft on the top of his nose, and a stubby iron-grey beard; but his eyes are bright and piercing. He has the reputation of being a rigid disciplinarian, and of shooting freely for insubordination. I understand he is rather unpopular on this account, and also by reason of his occasional acerbity of manner. He was extremely civil to me, and gave me permission to visit ...

— Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 • Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle

... lowest step of the forecastle ladder and sat fast. Then as we dipped I saw all that they were seeing from the masts and rigging—the yet restless sea with fast-running waves, alternately inky black, and of a strange bright metallic lead-colour, on which the scud as it drove across the moon made queer racing shadows. And it was on this stormy sea that every eye from the captain's to ...

— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... Wilbur rose to his feet. He hadn't spoken or touched food since that tragic hour under the reefs two nights before. Without a glance in our direction, he made for the side and stepped ashore. There was a bright light behind him; his form stood out plainly. It had lost the lines of vigor and alertness; it was the figure of a ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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