bright
Forms
- Comparative
- brighter
- Superlative
- brightest
- Comparative
- more bright
- Superlative
- most bright
- Plural
- brights
Definitions
1.Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
- The sky was remarkably bright and blue on that beautiful summer day.
2.Of light: brilliant, intense.
- Could you please dim the light? It’s far too bright.
3.Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.
- I can't sleep because it's too bright outside.
4.Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
- I can't sleep because it's too bright outside.
1.Something (especially a product intended for sale) that has vivid colours or a lustrous appearance.
2.A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.
- Brights constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are brights.
3.An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
1.In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1588
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
The adjective is from Middle English bright, from Old English berht, beorht, bryht, byrht, from Proto-West Germanic *berht, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (“bright”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam, shine, whiten”).