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| Main Entry: |
bright
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | incandescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing |
| Synonyms: | beaming, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, intense, lambent, lucent, luminous, phosphorescent, radiant, red-hot, refulgent, shining, white-hot |
| Notes: | incandescent means having a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it; fluorescent means based on fluorescence from a substance illuminated by ultraviolet light |
| Antonyms: | dark, dim |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illuminated |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, bright, brilliant, burnished, clear, cloudless, flashing, fluorescent, glossy, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, scintillant, shining, shiny, sunny, unclouded, unobscured, vivid, well-lighted, well-lit |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, darkened, dim, gloomy, obscure |
Example Sentences
- There are only shadows there ahead of me and the occasional flicker of the phosphorescent clocks on the control panel.
- The walls have been coated with phosphorescent paint, which causes the images to linger briefly as greenish ghosts.
- On the far horizon is a skyline painted in phosphorescent hues.
| Main Entry: | luminescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing, shining |
| Synonyms: | bright, effulgent, fluorescent, luminous, phosphorescent, radiant |
| Antonyms: | dull, obscured, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | shining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing |
| Synonyms: | agleam, beaming, bright, brilliant, conspicuous, coruscating, effulgent, glazed, glistening, glossy, incandescent, iridescent, irradiant, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, nitid, noticeable, opalescent, phosphorescent, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillating, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendorous |
| Antonyms: | dark, gloomy |
| Main Entry: | irradiant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, beamy, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, lucent, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Main Entry: | lucent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, beamy, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiant, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
light, self, ablaze, actinic, anacamptic, beaming, beamy, blazing, bright, bright as day, bright as noonday, bright as silver, bright as the sun at noonday, burnished, circumfulgent, clear, cloudless, effulgent, epipolic, flimmering, fluorescent, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurous, gairish, garish, glassy, glossy, guttering, heliographic, in a blaze, incandescent, inenubilable, interlucent, irradiated, lambent, light as day, light as noonday, light as the sun at noonday, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luculent, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, meridian, meteoric, nitid, noonday, noontide, orient, phosphorescent, photic, photoelastic, photogenic, photographic, plenilunar, radiant, refractive, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillant, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
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| Concept: | Light. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora., day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; sun (luminary) light; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday., glow; glimmering; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame., flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola., spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling; emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration; flame (fire); lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, (luminary) [more]., luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor, fulgidity; dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency; luminousness; luminosity; lucidity; renitency, nitency; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination., actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, X-ray; photography, heliography; photometer., [Science of light] optics; photology, photometry; dioptrics, catoptrics., [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality., reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
-verbs
shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright; reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate., clear up, brighten., lighten, enlighten; levin; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume, illumine, illuminate; relume, strike a light; kindle (set fire to).
-adjectives
shining; luminous, luminiferous; lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured., gairish, garish; resplendent, transplendent; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid, fulgent; relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow. bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday., actinic; photogenic, photographic; heliographic; heliophagous.
-phrases
"a day for gods to stoop and men to soar" [Tennyson]; "dark with excessive bright" [Milton].
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| Antonyms: | darkness |
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