1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
   "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
    
2. Having strong or striking colour
   "bright dress";
   - brilliant, vivid
    
3. Having lots of light either natural or artificial
   "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"
    
4. Characterized by quickness and ease in learning
   "some children are brighter in one subject than another";
   - smart
    
5. Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
   "bright silver candlesticks";
   - burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny
    
6. Splendid
   "the bright pageantry of court"; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"
    
7. Not made dim or less bright
   "bright headlights";
   - undimmed
    
8. Clear and sharp and ringing
   "the bright sound of the trumpet section";
   - brilliant
    
9. Characterized by happiness or gladness
   "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"
    
10. Likely to turn out well in the future
    "had a bright future in publishing";
    - hopeful, promising

1. With brightness
   "the windows glowed jewel bright";
   - brilliantly, brightly

Derived forms: brightest, brighter

See also: agleam, aglitter [literary], aglow, ardent, auspicious, beadlike, beady, beaming, beamy, blazing, blinding, bright as a new penny, brightness, brightness level, brilliant, buttonlike, buttony, colorful [US], colourful [Brit, Cdn], coruscant [literary], coruscating, dazzling, effulgent [literary], fulgent [literary], fulgid [literary], glaring, glary, gleaming, glimmering, glimmery, glinting, glistening, glistering [archaic], glittering, glittery, glorious, glossy, happy, intelligent, iridescent, irradiant [literary], lambent, light, lucent, luminance, luminosity, luminous, luminousness, lurid, lustrous, nacreous, nitid, noctilucent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent, polished, radiant, refulgent [literary], reverberant, satiny, scintillant, scintillating, self-luminous, sheeny, shimmery, shining, shiny, silken, silklike, silky, silver, silvern, silvery, sleek, slick, sparkly, twinkling, twinkly

Antonym: dim, dull

Encyclopedia: Bright, Ontario