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bright
adjective as in shining, glowing in appearance
Strongest matches
blazing, brilliant, dazzling, flashing, glistening, glittering, golden, intense, luminous, radiant, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunny, vivid
Weak matches
ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, burning, burnished, coruscating, effulgent, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glossy, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, sunlit, twinkling
adjective as in sunny, clear (weather)
adjective as in intelligent
Weak matches
acute, advanced, alert, astute, aware, brainy, clear-headed, clever, discerning, eggheaded, Einstein, having smarts, ingenious, inventive, keen, knowing, precocious, quick, quick-witted, whiz kid, wide-awake
adjective as in hopeful, promising
Weak matches
auspicious, benign, cheering, encouraging, favorable, optimistic, palmy, propitious, prosperous
adjective as in cheerful
adjective as in famous, outstanding
Weak matches
distinguished, eminent, illustrious, magnificent, prominent, remarkable
Example Sentences
"I could not eat, I could not sleep. I really did not hold much hope that life would ever get brighter," she said.
De la Huerta’s bright palette recalls Marc Chagall, the painter who fled to New York when the Nazis invaded France.
A resident on Canon Lane discovered the portable battery, and deputies found a second battery wrapped in bright green leaves with a wire feeding into the camera.
Kusaka’s playful forms are most commonly seen in her ceramic pots, vases and vessels, often glazed with bright colors and decorated with whimsical geometric patterns.
For “Abracadabra,” she wore a bright red bodysuit with a flappy skull attachment and ended up atop a stack of prone bodies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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