bright
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
How often you will meet it
Rank 682 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 27,772 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.013% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts the sun was bright and hota bright sunlit room
- having strong or striking color also: brilliant, vivid bright dressbrilliant tapestries
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning also: smart some children are brighter in one subject than anothersmart children talk earlier than the average
- having lots of light either natural or artificial the room was bright and airya stage bright with spotlights
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow also: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny bright silver candlesticksa burnished brass knocker
- splendid the bright stars of stage and screena bright moment in history
bright in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He turned his bright face to his father.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Prospects were bright, and hearts were light, just to drop into poetry.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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The next morning dawned bright and sunny, and I was full of the anticipation of a delightful visit.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet!
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1