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bright

 
Adjective bright has 11 senses
  1. bright - emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
    Antonyms:
    dull, flat, mat, matt, matte, matted, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless
  2. bright, brilliant, vivid - having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"
    Antonyms: colorless, colourless (indirect, via colorful)
  3. bright, smart - characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"
    Antonyms: unintelligent, stupid (indirect, via intelligent)
  4. bright - having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"
    Antonym:
    dark (indirect, via light)
  5. bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny - 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"
    Antonym: unpolished (indirect, via polished)
  6. bright - splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"
    Antonyms:
    inglorious, dishonorable (indirect, via glorious)
  7. undimmed, bright - not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed"
  8. bright, brilliant - clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"
    Antonyms: unreverberant, nonresonant (indirect, via reverberant)
  9. bright - characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"
    Antonym:
    unhappy (indirect, via happy)
  10. bright, shining, shiny, sunshiny, sunny - abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny"
    Antonym: cloudy (indirect, via clear)
  11. bright, promising - full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"
    Antonyms: inauspicious, unfortunate (indirect, via auspicious)
Adverbial bright has 1 sense
  1. brilliantly, brightly, bright - with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright"
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