bright (a)

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type a
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def emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
examples the sun was bright and hot
a bright sunlit room
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Attribute luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light
Derivationally related form bright → brightness
Antonym bright → dull
Similar to agleam, gleaming, nitid; aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous; aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly; beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike; beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent; blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary; bright as a new penny(p); brilliant; ardent; glimmery; glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining; iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent; lurid; noctilucent; satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick; self-luminous; shimmery; silver, silvern, silvery; twinkling(a)
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Similar to agleam, gleaming, nitid; aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous; aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly; beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike; beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent; blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary; bright as a new penny(p); brilliant; ardent; glimmery; glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining; iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent; lurid; noctilucent; satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick; self-luminous; shimmery; silver, silvern, silvery; twinkling(a)
Antonym dull → bright
Also see polished
Derived from adjective brightly → bright
Derivationally related form brightness → bright
Attribute luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light

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