bright
Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
Adjective 4 meanings
Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
“The sky was remarkably bright and blue on that beautiful summer day.”
Of light: brilliant, intense.
“Could you please dim the light? It’s far too bright.”
Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.
Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
Noun 3 meanings
Something (especially a product intended for sale) that has vivid colours or a lustrous appearance.
A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.
An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
Adverb 2 meanings
In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously.
Referring to colour: with bold or vivid colours; brightly, boldly, vividly.
Etymology
The adjective is from Middle English bright, from Old English berht, beorht, bryht, byrht, from Proto-West Germanic *berht, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (“bright”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam, shine, whiten”).
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BRIGHT at a glance
BRIGHT has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (B 3 + R 1 + I 1 + G 2 + H 4 + T 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,372 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bright
All rhymesOne letter away
- WRIGHT13
- FRIGHT13
- BLIGHT12
- ARIGHT10
- BRICHT13
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