English > bright: 11 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts. |
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| Examples | - "the sun was bright and hot"
- "a bright sunlit room"
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| Attribute of | luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light | The quality of being luminous |
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| Narrower | agleam, gleaming, nitid | bright with a steady but subdued shining |
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| aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly | Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light |
| aglow, lambent, lucent, luminous | softly bright or radiant |
| ardent | glowing or shining like fire |
| beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike | 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 |
| glimmery | Shining softly and intermittently |
| glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining | 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, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, 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 |
| See also | polished | perfected or made shiny and smooth |
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| Opposite | dull | emitting or reflecting very little light |
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| Spanish | brillante, claro, luminoso |
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| Catalan | brillant, lluminós |
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| Nouns | brightness | the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white |
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| Adverbs | brightly | with brightness |
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