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单词 bright
释义 bright
I. \ˈbrīt, usu -īd.+V\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English beorht, byrht, bryht; akin to Old High German beraht bright, Old Norse bjartr, Gothic bairhts clear, evident, Sanskrit bhrājate it shines
1.
 a. : marked by shining or radiating light : pervaded by, shedding, or reflecting a relatively great amount of light : shining, luminous
  < a bright sun >
  < bright flames >
  < bright eyes >
  < some diamonds, very bright and sparkling — Charles Dickens >
 b. : marked by qualities that make conspicuous in a way similar to that of a radiating light: as
  (1) : ringing and clear : sharp — used of sounds or musical tones having a predominance of high overtones
   < a sharp bright quality of voice >
  (2) : of high or very high saturation or lightness — used of a color
   < bright red >
 c. : having qualities that make markedly, especially radiantly, attractive : illustrious for qualities that charm or affect the mind pleasurably
  < bright hours with friends >
  < bright beauty >
  < a landscape bright with flowers >
 d. : marked by lightness, cheer, happiness, or qualities inspiring optimism : promising, auspicious
  < those bright mornings when you whistle with a light heart — W.H.Auden >
  < bright prospects of victory >
  < his voice sounded so bright and cheerful, and had such a warm infectious gladness running through it — O.E.Rölvaag >
2. archaic : illustrious, glorious
 < Troy … bright with fame — Shakespeare >
3.
 a. : showing mental quickness, ready understanding or learning, prompt responses, or originality
  < bright young fellows with a charming literary swagger, they aspired to be wits — V.L.Parrington >
 b. : showing lively animation, vivacity, or activity
  < bright and busy and crowded with tourists — American Guide Series: Michigan >
  < she paused for a bright wave of her hand — Agnes S. Turnbull >
 c. : showing glib quickness or facile resourcefulness without deep intellectuality
  < bright ideas, some of them showing a superb neglect of practical feasibility — Countryman >
4. : clear, transparent
 < a bright wine >
 < bright beer >
5. : light in color or smooth, clean, or lustrous in any of several ways: as
 a. of lumber : newly sawed or planed and smooth or free from discoloration
 b. of woodwork : scraped and cleaned usually with sand or canvas but not painted
 c. of coal : shining and banded : containing high moisture and sulfur content — compare clarain, vitrain
 d. : having a high sparkling or glazed finish
  < bright jewelry >
  < a bright leather >
 e. : free from dirt and having an attractive luster
  < bright onions ready for market >
 f. : having a natural unbleached color (as in certain market grades of hay or grain)
 g. of yarn : lustrous
 h. of silk : degummed
 i. of wool or cotton : light colored : white
 j. of a Negro : light in complexion
  < a bright mulatto >
 k. of wire rope : not galvanized, tinned, or otherwise coated
6. : flue-cured
Synonyms:
 brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous, effulgent, refulgent, beaming, beamy, lambent, lucent, incandescent: bright indicates emission of or pervasion by a high degree of light
  < like the bright spots that move about the sun — John Keats >
  < the moon was so bright that Smith watered and raked and weeded as if it had been day — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall >
  brilliant implies intense, often sparkling brightness
  < midnight streets are more brilliant than noon — American Guide Series: New York City >
  < a luscious prairie … brilliant with bulb flowers in the springtime — H.J.Mackinder >
  radiant may stress emission of light rays but often it is only a colorful equivalent for bright
  < the sun and moon, then at the prime of their radiant power and glory — J.G.Frazer >
  < the radiant mist of the afterglow — Ellen Glasgow >
  < its beautifully terraced garden radiant with bloom — V.G.Heiser >
  luminous usually implies emission of a steady, suffused, glowing light
  < the château began to make itself strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous — Charles Dickens >
  < the inner surface of the glass is luminous of itself, shining with a soft and clear green light — K.K.Darrow >
  lustrous stresses a tendency to reflect light, especially in a rich and even way
  < the lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam — John Keats >
  < lustrous as some huge precious pearl — Henry James †1916 >
  effulgent and refulgent indicate resplendent or gleaming brilliance, the latter implying reflectivity
  < the fiery light of the sinking sun … mottled the mountains with effulgent spaces — John Tyndall >
  < the glorious sovereign of day, clothed in light refulgent, rolling on his gilded chariot, hastened to revisit the western realms — William Bartram >
  beaming and the poetical beamy stress emission of light beams or rays
  < the rising moon fair beaming — Robert Burns >
  < west and away the wheels of darkness roll, day's beamy banner up the east is borne — A.E.Housman >
  lambent often indicates soft luminosity
  < another moon new risen … of lambent flame serene — William Cowper >
  < kind, quiet, nearsighted eyes, which his round spectacles magnified into lambent moons — Margaret Deland >
  lucent, various in its uses and romantic in suggestion, may imply a transfiguring light
  < she walked below the lucent sun — Elinor Wylie >
  < till every particle glowed clean and new and slowly seemed to turn to lucent amber in a world of blue — W.W.Gibson >
  incandescent suggests intense, glowing brightness
  < here gush the sparkles incandescent like scattered showers of golden sand — Bayard Taylor >
  < the air rendered incandescent by the vehemence of the impacts of the electrons against its molecules — K.K.Darrow >
Synonym: see in addition intelligent.
II. adverb
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English brighte, from Old English beorhte, byrhte, bryhte, from beorht, byrht, bryht, adjective
: brightly
 < I say it is the moon that shines so bright — Shakespeare >
 < asked which of the two lamps shone brighter >
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from bright, adjective
1. obsolete : brightness, splendor
2. : tobacco of a light shade; specifically : flue-cured tobacco
3. : an artist's brush with short flat square-edged bristles — compare flat, round
4. brights plural : high beam
IV. noun
: a bright color — usually used in plural
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