Word Meanings - BRIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRIGHT)

• Beaming
• Shining
• gleaming
• bright
• radiant
• beautiful
• transparent
• translucid
• Blithe
• Light
• merry
• joyous
• happy
• elastic
• gladsome
• bonny
• vivacious
• lively
• cheerful
• blithesome
• gay
• Cheerful
• Lively
• joyful
• pleasant
• buoyant
• enlivening
• In good spirits
• sprightly
• blithe
• Clear \adj Open
• pure
• free
• disencumbered
• disentangled
• disengaged
• absolved
• acquitted
• serene
• unclouded
• evident
• apparent
• distinct
• manifest
• conspicuous
• unobstructed
• plain
• obvious
• intelligible
• lucid
• Flaring
• Flaming
• glaring
• gaudy
• over-colored
• flaunting
• flashy
• showy
• tawdry
• ostentatious

Related words: (words related to BRIGHT)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• BRIGHT
  See I
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• BEAMFUL
  Beamy; radiant.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• FLARE-UP
  A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• BEAMLESS
  1. Not having a beam. 2. Not emitting light.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• BEAMY
  1. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell. 2. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden. 3. Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• EVIDENTIARY
  Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.