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9 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brite \Brite\, Bright \Bright\, verb (used with an object) To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bright \Bright\, verb (used without an object) See {Brite}, verb (used without an object)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bright \Bright\, adjective [OE. briht, AS. beorht, briht; akin to OS. berht, OHG. beraht, Icel. bjartr, Goth. ba['i]rhts. [root]94.]
1. Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.
The sun was bright o'erhead. --Longfellow.
The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. --Drake.
The public places were as bright as at noonday. --Macaulay.
2. Transmitting light; clear; transparent.
From the brightest wines He 'd turn abhorrent. --Thomson.
3. Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty.
Bright as an angel new-dropped from the sky. --Parnell.
4. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
5. Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
Be bright and jovial among your guests. --Shak.
6. Illustrious; glorious.
In the brightest annals of a female reign. --Cotton.
7. Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
That he may with more ease, with brighter evidence, and with surer success, draw the bearner on. --I. Watts.
8. Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. --Pope.
Note: Bright is used in composition in the sense of brilliant, clear, sunny, etc.; as, bright-eyed, bright-haired, bright-hued.
{bright side} the positive or favorable aspects of a situation.
{to look on the bright side} to focus the attention on favorable aspects of a situation; to minimize attention to possible negative or unfavorable factors in a situation. [PJC]
Syn: Shining; splending; luminous; lustrous; brilliant; resplendent; effulgent; refulgent; radiant; sparkling; glittering; lucid; beamy; clear; transparent; illustrious; witty; clear; vivacious; sunny.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bright \Bright\, noun Splendor; brightness. [Poetic]
Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bright \Bright\, adverb Brightly. --Chaucer.
I say it is the moon that shines so bright. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bright
adjective
1: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room" [ant: {dull}]
2: having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: {brilliant}, {vivid}]
3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" [syn: {smart}]
4: having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"
5: 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" [syn: {burnished}, {lustrous}, {shining}, {shiny}]
6: splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"
7: not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed" [syn: {undimmed}] [ant: {dimmed}]
8: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" [syn: {brilliant}]
9: characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"
10: abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: {shining}, {shiny}, {sunshiny}, {sunny}]
11: full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career" [syn: {promising}]
adverb: with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright" [syn: {brilliantly}, {brightly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
307 Moby Thesaurus words for "bright": Leibnizian, Saturnian, adroit, advanced, agile, aglow, alert, alight, alive, animate, animated, apt, astute, attentive, auspicious, awake, balmy, beaming, bedazzling, benign, benignant, blazing, bleached, blinding, blithe, blithesome, blooming, brainy, brave, bright and shining, bright and sunny, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, burnished, cant, charismatic, cheerful, cheery, chiliastic, clean, cleanly, clear, clever, cloudless, colorful, colory, conceptive, conceptual, coruscating, couleur de rose, dainty, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, dexter, dexterous, dirt-free, discursive, distinguished, divine, docile, educable, effulgent, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exotic, exuberant, facile, fair, fastidious, favorable, favoring, flamboyant, flaming, flashing, fluorescent, flushed, formable, fortunate, fresh, fulgent, fulgid, full of promise, garish, gay, gay-colored, genial, gifted, glad, gladsome, glamorous, glaring, glary, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing, golden, good, gorgeous, halcyon, happy, harmless, heavenly, high, high-colored, hopeful, ideational, illuminated, illustrious, immaculate, impressionable, in good spirits, in high spirits, incandescent, ingenious, instructable, intellectual, intelligent, intense, inviolate, irrepressible, keen, keen-witted, killing, knowing, kosher, lambent, laughing, light, lighted, lively, lucent, lucid, lucky, luminous, lustrous, magic, magnificent, malleable, mild, millenarian, millennialistic, mint, moldable, motivated, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, noetic, nonpolluted, not born yesterday, not so dumb, numinous, of cleanly habits, of good cheer, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, optimistic, outstanding, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plastic, pleasant, pliable, polished, precocious, pristine, promising, prompt, propitious, prosperous, pure, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, radiant, rational, raving, ravishing, ready, reasonable, receptive, refulgent, resplendent, riant, rich, rich-colored, ripe for instruction, ritually pure, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sane, sanguine, sanguineous, scatheless, schoolable, scintillating, sensible, sharp, sharp-witted, shimmering, shining, shiny, sleepless, smart, smiling, smut-free, smutless, sophic, sparkling, spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, spotless, sprightly, stainless, steel-trap, strong-minded, stunning, sublime, sunny, sunshiny, susceptible, sweet, tahar, talented, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblinking, unblotted, unbroken, unbruised, unclouded, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, understanding, undestroyed, undimmed, unfaded, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unmuddied, unnodding, unpolluted, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unsleeping, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, untorn, untouched, unwinking, unwithered, unworn, upbeat, utopian, virgin, vivacious, vivid, wakeful, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, wide-awake, willing, winsome, witty
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bright, IN (CDP, FIPS 7624) Location: 39.20265 N, 84.85758 W Population (1990): 3945 (1244 housing units) Area: 37.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Bright, IN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Indiana Population (2000): 5405 Housing Units (2000): 1811 Land area (2000): 14.308764 sq. miles (37.059527 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 14.308764 sq. miles (37.059527 sq. km) FIPS code: 07624 Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18 Location: 39.218114 N, 84.862357 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Bright, IN Bright
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