bright

/braɪt/

/braɪt/

Other forms: brighter; brightest; brights

After a long, gray winter, it's hard to remember what a bright, sunny day is like. Bright means shining with light.

The adjective bright is good for describing anything that emits, reflects, or is full of light — like the bright moon, the bright sky or the bright, well-lit room. Bright can also mean vivid or vibrant — such as a bright purple three-piece suit. More figuratively, bright means "full of hope or possibility" — like your bright future as a marine biologist.

Definitions of bright

1. adjective

   emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
   “the sun was bright and hot”

   “a bright sunlit room”

   synonyms:

   agleam, gleaming, nitid

   bright with a steady but subdued shining

   aglow, lambent, lucent, luminous

   softly bright or radiant

   aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly

   having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

   beadlike, beady, buttonlike, buttony

   small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button

   beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent

   radiating or as if radiating light

   blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary

   shining intensely

   bright as a new penny

   (metaphor) shining brightly

   brilliant

   full of light; shining intensely

   ardent

   glowing or shining like fire

   glimmery

   shining softly and intermittently

   glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny

   reflecting light

   iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent

   having a play of lustrous rainbow colors

   lurid

   shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke

   noctilucent

   shining or glowing by night

   satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick

   having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light

   self-luminous

   having in itself the property of emitting light

   shimmery

   glistening tremulously

   silver, silvern, silvery

   having the white lustrous sheen of silver

   twinkling

   shining intermittently with a sparkling light

   antonyms:

   dull

   emitting or reflecting very little light

   flat, mat, matt, matte, matted

   not reflecting light; not glossy

   lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless

   lacking luster or shine

   soft, subdued

   not brilliant or glaring

   unpolished

   not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing
2. adjective

   made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
   “bright silver candlesticks”

   synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny

   polished

   perfected or made shiny and smooth
3. adjective

   not made dim or less bright
   synonyms: undimmed
4. adjective

   having lots of light either natural or artificial
   “the room was bright and airy”

   “a stage bright with spotlights”

   synonyms:

   light

   characterized by or emitting light
5. adjective

   having striking color
   “bright dress”

   synonyms: brilliant, vivid

   colorful, colourful

   having striking color
6. adverb

   with brightness
   “the windows glowed jewel bright”

   synonyms: brightly, brilliantly
7. adjective

   characterized by quickness and ease in learning
   “some children are brighter in one subject than another”

   synonyms: smart

   intelligent

   having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
8. adjective

   splendid
   “the bright stars of stage and screen”

   “a bright moment in history”

   “the bright pageantry of court”

   synonyms:

   glorious

   having or deserving or conferring glory
9. adjective

   clear and sharp and ringing
   “the bright sound of the trumpet section”

   synonyms: brilliant

   reverberant

   having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
10. adjective

    characterized by happiness or gladness
    “bright faces”

    synonyms:

    happy

    enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
11. adjective

    full of promise
    “had a bright future in publishing”

    synonyms: hopeful, promising

    auspicious

    auguring favorable circumstances and good luck