bright

1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts (synset 300279417)
   "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
   tells us about: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness - the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
   similar to:

   • 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
2. Having strong or striking color (synset 300403922)
   "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"
   similar to: colorful, colourful - having much or varied color
   same as: brilliant, vivid
3. Characterized by quickness and ease in learning (synset 301338411)
   "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"
   similar to: intelligent - having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
   same as: smart
4. Having lots of light either natural or artificial (synset 300271888)
   "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"
   similar to: light - characterized by or emitting light
5. Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing;
   Reflecting a sheen or glow (synset 301817522)
   "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"
   similar to: polished - perfected or made shiny and smooth
   same as: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny
6. Splendid (synset 301125000)
   "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"
   similar to: glorious - having or deserving or conferring glory
7. Not made dim or less bright (synset 300285796)
   "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed"
   same as: undimmed
8. Clear and sharp and ringing (synset 302016784)
   "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"
   similar to: reverberant - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
   same as: brilliant
9. Characterized by happiness or gladness (synset 301152553)
   "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"
   similar to: happy - enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
10. Likely to turn out well in the future (synset 300177648)
    "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway"
    similar to: auspicious - auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
    same as: hopeful, promising

1. With brightness (synset 400077434)
   "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright"
   same as: brightly, brilliantly

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