bright
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bright/brʌɪt/
▶adjective
- 1 giving out much light, or filled with light.
- 2 (of colour) vivid and bold.
- 3 intelligent and quick-witted.
- 4 cheerfully lively.
- 5 (of prospects) good.
- 6 (of sound) clear and typically high-pitched.
– phrases
bright and early very early in the morning.
(as) bright as a button informal intelligently alert and lively.
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed informal alert and lively.
look on the bright side be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties.
bright and early very early in the morning.
(as) bright as a button informal intelligently alert and lively.
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed informal alert and lively.
look on the bright side be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties.
– derivatives
brighten verb,
brightish adjective,
brightly adverb,
brightness noun.
brighten verb,
brightish adjective,
brightly adverb,
brightness noun.
– origin OE beorht, of Gmc origin.
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acetylene
- acriflavine
- anchusa
- annular eclipse
- arginine
- azure
- Baily's beads
- bearberry
- bittersweet
- bituminous coal
- blaze
- blinding
- bloodfin
- bloodworm
- bloom
- blue-eyed Mary
- borage
- Bright's disease
- bright spark
- brilliant
- brimstone
- brimstone moth
- bugloss
- burning bush
- buttercup
- cadmium yellow
- calabrese
- camera lucida
- canary
- canary creeper
- candy apple
- canna
- carbuncle
- cat's eye
- chatoyant
- cherry
- chiaroscuro
- China aster
- chrome yellow
- cinnabar
- cone
- copper
- cotoneaster
- crocus
- cuckoo pint
- daffodil
- dandelion
- dazzle
- dazzling
