bright

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The punks I've known are much more well-read and just as bright as the grad students I spend time with now.

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Quick take

emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"

adjective

having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"

adjective

characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bright.

adjective

emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"

adjective

having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"

adjective

characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"

adjective

having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"

adjective

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"

See also: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny

adjective

splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"

adjective

not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed"

adjective

clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"

adjective

characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"

adjective

full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway"

adverb

with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright"

Example sentences

The punks I've known are much more well-read and just as bright as the grad students I spend time with now.

The display is brighter and more saturated than the 4S.

The parent comment's "looking at the bright side" stance is a coward and lazy attitude.

It's a rare bright day in the middle of the worst economic environment since the 1930s.

Troubles with the justice department don't alone cause a bright young man to kill himself.> I was miserable.

Whats worse is that all these people who are getting rich dont seem to be any brighter than you are and in fact many of them dont seem very bright at all.

Academia is a horrible feudalistic system that doesn't pay well enough to keep the bright minds it attracts.

They were required to clearly state the subscription model, in a separate box, delimited with clear colors and a bright background.

It's obviously very important to stay on the bright white side of legal here, as we are dealing with a prosecutorial bully.

No one is going to guess that's how to print.- On the bright side, our network printer/scanner was detected and installed immediately, with zero user intervention.

I've been in plenty of meetings with bright people from inside and outside the company where we started off with the goal that, as he put it, "if you do it right you publish once and it works anywhere".

I'm pretty certain that Opera's future is bright and shiny!---- Former Opera employee and devoted user, speaking for myself, obviously.

You'll spend another 30 seconds lining up the little on-screen window with the code, rotating things, waiting for the camera to focus, and even having to move to another location if you're not in bright lighting.

By the end of \n kindergarten, the Montessori children performed better on standardized \n tests of reading and math, engaged in more positive interaction on \n the playground, and showed more advanced social cognition and \n executive control.\n\nTL;DR: Montessori kids turn out better on many measures when controlling for "bright parents".