brightadjective
uk/braɪt/us/braɪt/bright adjective (LIGHT)
B1 full of light, shining:
bright sunshine
The rooms were bright and airy.
The lights are too bright in here - they're hurting my eyes.
A bright star was shining in the East.
When she looked up her eyes were bright with tears.
In 2009 I moved to New York, attracted by the bright lights (= the promise of excitement) of the city.
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- The light was so bright that I had to cover my eyes.
- The office is quite bright and airy - it's a pleasant working environment.
- It was a bright moonlit night.
- The lake sparkled in the bright sunlight.
- He screwed his eyes tight shut against the bright light.
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The qualities of light
- ablaze
- backlit
- brilliant
- coruscating
- flicker
- floodlit
- fluorescent
- gleaming
- glittering
- glittery
- glossy
- incandescent
- lambent
- luminescent
- lustrous
- opalescent
- polychromatic
- spangly
- sparkling
- torchlight
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bright adjective (COLOUR)
A2 strong in colour:
Leslie always wears bright colours.
He said hello and I felt my face turn bright red.
a bright shade of green
More examples
- She painted her nails a bright red.
- You can't mistake their house - it's got a bright yellow front door.
- She looks best in bright, vibrant colours, like red and pink.
- Jazz the dress up with some bright accessories.
- His eyes were bright blue with a roguish twinkle in them.
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The qualities of colour
- a riot of colour idiom
- ablaze
- brash
- colorful
- colourful
- deep
- depth
- dusky
- flamboyant
- fluorescent
- harsh
- high-visibility
- loud
- muddy
- psychedelic
- pure
- riot
- technicolor
- vibrant
- warm
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bright adjective (INTELLIGENT)
B2 intelligent and quick to learn:
They were bright children, always asking questions.
She was enthusiastic and full of bright ideas and suggestions.
More examples
- Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.
- She's fresh out of/from university and very bright.
- He's very good-looking but not terribly bright.
- She wants a man who is bright, attractive and funny as well, which is asking the impossible in my opinion.
- He's a bright enough student - he just lacks motivation.
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Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agile
- apt
- artful
- as (if) to the manner born idiom
- brilliance
- gumption
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- ingenious
- presence of mind
- quick-witted
- razor-sharp
- ready
- resource
- resourceful
- scholarly
- sharply
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bright adjective (HAPPY)
B2 full of hope for success or happiness:
You're very bright and cheerful this morning.
Things are starting to look brighter for British businesses.
She's an excellent student with a bright future.
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- The receptionist had a bright set smile on his face, but I could tell that he was bored.
- The experts are painting a brighter picture of the state of the economy.
- With no job or qualifications, the future didn't look bright for James.
- The customers loved her bright and cheerful manner.
- Look on the bright side - no one was badly hurt.
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jubilant
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
- swoon
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brightness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbraɪt.nəs/us/ˈbraɪt.nəs/
The brightness of the snow made him blink.
brightly
adverb uk/ˈbraɪt.li/us/ˈbraɪt.li/
B2
a brightly lit room
Clowns often wear brightly coloured clothing.
Despite her fear, she spoke brightly to the group.
Idiom(s)
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
brightnoun
uk/braɪt/us/braɪt/brights [ plural ] US informal UK full beam [ U ]
A car's brights are its headlights (= the powerful lights at the front) when they are brightest and aimed straight ahead.
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The exterior of vehicles
- brake light
- bull bar
- bumper sticker
- hood
- Klaxon
- licence plate
- license plate number
- offside
- petrol cap
- radial
- retread
- roof
- roof rack
- side mirror
- splash guard
- stepney
- tyre
- vanity plates
- wing
- wing mirror
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