Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BRIGHT

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Definitions of BRIGHT

1. Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
2. Of light: brilliant, intense.
3. Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.
4. Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
5. Of climate or weather: not cloudy or gloomy; fair; also, of a period of time, the sky, etc.: characterized by much sunshine and good weather.
6. A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.
7. A surname.
8. (archaic or literary)
9. (figuratively)
10. (metallurgy) Of a metal object or surface: lacking any protective coating or surface treatment for the prevention of corrosion.
11. (chiefly, in the plural) Something (especially a product intended for sale) that has vivid colours or a lustrous appearance.
12. (painting) An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
13. (often, literary) In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously.
14. (transitive) Often followed by up: to cast light on (someone or something); to brighten, to illuminate.
15. (transitive, figuratively) Often followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to make (someone or something) energetic, or happy and optimistic.
16. (intransitive, also, figuratively) Often followed by up: to become bright (in various senses); to brighten.
17. A CDP in Dearborn County, Indiana, USA.
18. A unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia, USA.
19. A unincorporated community in Green Grove, Clark County, Wisconsin, USA.
20. A cpar in, York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
21. A town in Alpine Shire, north-east, Victoria, Australia.
22. A cpar and townland in Down, Northern Ireland.

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Examples of Using BRIGHT in a Sentence

• Algol , designated Beta Persei (β Persei, abbreviated Beta Per, β Per), known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright multiple star in the constellation of Perseus and one of the first non-nova variable stars to be discovered.
• From its outset, it was influenced by the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes, and the exoticized styles of art from China, Japan, India, Persia, ancient Egypt, and Maya.
• An afterglow in meteorology consists of several atmospheric optical phenomena, with a general definition as a broad arch of whitish or pinkish sunlight in the twilight sky, consisting of the bright segment and the purple light.
• Boötes is home to many other bright stars, including eight above the fourth magnitude and an additional 21 above the fifth magnitude, making a total of 29 stars easily visible to the naked eye.
• The ancient Greeks used two words for air: aer meant the dim lower atmosphere, and aether meant the bright upper atmosphere above the clouds.
• The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), or Carolina conure, is an extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face, and pale beak that was native to the Eastern, Midwest, and Plains states of the United States.
• In its pure form, it is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.
• They are the most readily visible Solar System objects after Saturn, the dimmest of the classical planets; though their closeness to bright Jupiter makes naked-eye observation very difficult, they are readily seen with common binoculars, even under night sky conditions of high light pollution.
• One of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, Leo remains one of the 88 modern constellations today, and one of the most easily recognizable due to its many bright stars and a distinctive shape that is reminiscent of the crouching lion it depicts.
• Lycopene (from the Neo-Latin Lycopersicon, the name of a former tomato genus) is a bright red carotenoid hydrocarbon found in tomatoes and other red fruits and vegetables.
• Similarly to the Earth's Moon, Mercury's surface displays an expansive rupes system generated from thrust faults and bright ray systems formed by impact event remnants.
• In the hypothetical case that the universe is static, homogeneous at a large scale, and populated by an infinite number of stars, any line of sight from Earth must end at the surface of a star and hence the night sky should be completely illuminated and very bright.
• Most stars on this list appear bright from Earth because they are nearby, not because they are intrinsically luminous.
• Only 22 are bright enough to be visible without a telescope, for which the star's visible light needs to reach or exceed the dimmest brightness visible to the naked eye from Earth, 6.
• Its most common variety is often referred to as "white sambuca" to differentiate it from other varieties that are deep blue ("black sambuca") or bright red ("red sambuca").
• This object has a stellar classification of G4 V-IV, being rather unusually bright for a main sequence star of its type and thus may be just starting to evolve into the subgiant phase.
• A flare, also sometimes called a fusée, fusee, or bengala, bengalo in several European countries, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a bright light or intense heat without an explosion.
• Allegro (music), a tempo marking indicate to play fast, quickly and bright (from Italian meaning cheerful).
• Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the US-led grunge music and the UK's own shoegaze music scene.
• Method Acting, a song by the group Bright Eyes on their album "Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground".
• In cooler climates some species are cultivated outside in summertime for their bright colorful flowers, which have sepals but no petals.
• In optics, the Arago spot, Poisson spot, or Fresnel spot is a bright point that appears at the center of a circular object's shadow due to Fresnel diffraction.
• In contrast, the term brightness in astronomy is generally used to refer to an object's apparent brightness: that is, how bright an object appears to an observer.
• can be used to suggest a character's state of mind, whether that be happy with bright colors, or sad with darker colors.
• Five bright stars of Scutum (α Sct, β Sct, δ Sct, ε Sct and η Sct) were previously known as 1, 6, 2, 3, and 9 Aquilae respectively.

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