Meaning

5 senses
  1. (in the plural)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.

  3. An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.

  4. (archaic, literary)Brightness, glow.

  5. (archaic, figuratively, literary)Glory, splendour.

Examples

772 sentences
  1. A bright idea occurred to me.

    Мені в голову прийшла блискуча ідея. — deniko

    ruМне в голову пришла блестящая идея. — odexed

  2. They painted their house bright yellow.

    Вони пофарбували свій будинок у яскраво-жовтий колір. — ChickenKiev

    deSie strichen ihr Haus hellgelb. — Zaghawa

  3. The moon was bright last night.

    Минулої ночі місяць світив яскраво. — ascolto

    ruЛуна была яркой прошлой ночью. — corvard

  4. Tom is an extremely bright man.

    Том надзвичайно розумна людина. — deniko

  5. I think that Tom is bright.

    Я думаю, що Том розумний. — deniko

Origin

The adjective is from Middle English bright, from Old English berht, beorht, bryht, byrht,

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”).

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Forms

plural: brights
Singularbright
Pluralbrights

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Collocations

12 patterns
  • is a bright
  • bright red
  • a bright future
  • is very bright
  • a bright kid
  • bright boy
  • a bright boy
  • bright kid
  • bright future
  • a bright student
  • a bright guy
  • a very bright

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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