Bright \Bright\, n.
Splendor; brightness. [Poetic]
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Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. --Milton.
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Bright \Bright\, v. i.
See Brite, v. i.
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Bright \Bright\, a. [OE. briht, AS. beorht, briht; akin to OS.
berht, OHG. beraht, Icel. bjartr, Goth. ba['i]rhts.
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1. Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much
light; shining; luminous; not dark.
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The sun was bright o'erhead. --Longfellow.
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The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright.
--Drake.
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The public places were as bright as at noonday.
--Macaulay.
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2. Transmitting light; clear; transparent.
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From the brightest wines
He 'd turn abhorrent. --Thomson.
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3. Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or
that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent
with charms; as, bright beauty.
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Bright as an angel new-dropped from the sky.
--Parnell.
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4. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
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5. Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding
cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
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Be bright and jovial among your guests. --Shak.
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6. Illustrious; glorious.
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In the brightest annals of a female reign. --Cotton.
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7. Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear;
evident; plain.
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That he may with more ease, with brighter evidence,
and with surer success, draw the bearner on. --I.
Watts.
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8. Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
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Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. --Pope.
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Note: Bright is used in composition in the sense of
brilliant, clear, sunny, etc.; as, bright-eyed,
bright-haired, bright-hued.
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bright side the positive or favorable aspects of a
situation.
to look on the bright side to focus the attention on
favorable aspects of a situation; to minimize attention to
possible negative or unfavorable factors in a situation.
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Syn: Shining; splending; luminous; lustrous; brilliant;
resplendent; effulgent; refulgent; radiant; sparkling;
glittering; lucid; beamy; clear; transparent;
illustrious; witty; clear; vivacious; sunny.
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Bright \Bright\, adv.
Brightly. --Chaucer.
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I say it is the moon that shines so bright. --Shak.
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Brite \Brite\, Bright \Bright\, v. t.
To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops. [Prov.
Eng.]
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bright
adj 1: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts;
"the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
[ant: dull]
2: having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant
tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: brilliant,
vivid]
3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some
children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart
children talk earlier than the average" [syn: smart]
4: having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room
was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"
5: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
black patents" [syn: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny]
6: splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright
moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"
7: not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights";
"surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the
houselights were still undimmed" [syn: undimmed] [ant: dimmed]
8: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the
trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"
[syn: brilliant]
9: characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all
the world seems bright and gay"
10: abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining
norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: shining,
shiny, sunshiny, sunny]
11: full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the
scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political
career" [syn: promising]
adv : with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows
glowed jewel bright" [syn: brilliantly, brightly]
WordNet (r) 2.0
307 Moby Thesaurus words for "bright":
Leibnizian, Saturnian, adroit, advanced, agile, aglow, alert,
alight, alive, animate, animated, apt, astute, attentive,
auspicious, awake, balmy, beaming, bedazzling, benign, benignant,
blazing, bleached, blinding, blithe, blithesome, blooming, brainy,
brave, bright and shining, bright and sunny, bright-hued,
brilliant, burning, burnished, cant, charismatic, cheerful, cheery,
chiliastic, clean, cleanly, clear, clever, cloudless, colorful,
colory, conceptive, conceptual, coruscating, couleur de rose,
dainty, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, dexter, dexterous,
dirt-free, discursive, distinguished, divine, docile, educable,
effulgent, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
exotic, exuberant, facile, fair, fastidious, favorable, favoring,
flamboyant, flaming, flashing, fluorescent, flushed, formable,
fortunate, fresh, fulgent, fulgid, full of promise, garish, gay,
gay-colored, genial, gifted, glad, gladsome, glamorous, glaring,
glary, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing,
golden, good, gorgeous, halcyon, happy, harmless, heavenly, high,
high-colored, hopeful, ideational, illuminated, illustrious,
immaculate, impressionable, in good spirits, in high spirits,
incandescent, ingenious, instructable, intellectual, intelligent,
intense, inviolate, irrepressible, keen, keen-witted, killing,
knowing, kosher, lambent, laughing, light, lighted, lively, lucent,
lucid, lucky, luminous, lustrous, magic, magnificent, malleable,
mild, millenarian, millennialistic, mint, moldable, motivated,
nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, noetic, nonpolluted,
not born yesterday, not so dumb, numinous, of cleanly habits,
of good cheer, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, on the,
on the alert, on the ball, on the job, optimistic, outstanding,
perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plastic, pleasant, pliable,
polished, precocious, pristine, promising, prompt, propitious,
prosperous, pure, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted,
radiant, rational, raving, ravishing, ready, reasonable, receptive,
refulgent, resplendent, riant, rich, rich-colored,
ripe for instruction, ritually pure, rose-colored, roseate, rosy,
sane, sanguine, sanguineous, scatheless, schoolable, scintillating,
sensible, sharp, sharp-witted, shimmering, shining, shiny,
sleepless, smart, smiling, smut-free, smutless, sophic, sparkling,
spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, spotless,
sprightly, stainless, steel-trap, strong-minded, stunning, sublime,
sunny, sunshiny, susceptible, sweet, tahar, talented, teachable,
thirsty for knowledge, trainable, tubbed, unadulterated,
unbesmirched, unblemished, unblinking, unblotted, unbroken,
unbruised, unclouded, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed,
undemolished, understanding, undestroyed, undimmed, unfaded,
unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled,
unmarked, unmarred, unmuddied, unnodding, unpolluted, unscarred,
unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unsleeping, unsmirched,
unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied,
untainted, untarnished, untorn, untouched, unwinking, unwithered,
unworn, upbeat, utopian, virgin, vivacious, vivid, wakeful,
well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, wide-awake, willing,
winsome, witty
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Bright, IN (CDP, FIPS 7624)
Location: 39.20265 N, 84.85758 W
Population (1990): 3945 (1244 housing units)
Area: 37.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Bright, IN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Indiana
Population (2000): 5405
Housing Units (2000): 1811
Land area (2000): 14.308764 sq. miles (37.059527 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.308764 sq. miles (37.059527 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07624
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.218114 N, 84.862357 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bright, IN
Bright
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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