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Definitions for Brightly

[1] radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
[2] filled with light: The room was bright with sunshine.
[3] vivid or brilliant: a bright red dress; bright passages of prose.
[4] quick-witted or intelligent: They gave promotions to bright employees.
[5] clever or witty, as a remark: Bright comments enlivened the conversation.
[6] animated; lively; cheerful: a bright and happy child; a bird's bright song.
[7] characterized by happiness or gladness: All the world seems bright and gay.
[8] favorable or auspicious: bright prospects for the future.
[9] radiant or splendid: the bright pageantry of court.
[10] illustrious or glorious, as an era: the bright days of the Renaissance.
[11] clear or translucent, as liquid: The bright water trickled through his fingers.
[12] having a glossy, glazed, or polished finish.
[13] intensely clear and vibrant in tone or quality; clear and sharp in sound: a bright singing voice.
[14] brights, the automobile or truck headlights used for driving at night or under conditions of decreased visibility. the brighter level of intensity of these lights, usually deflected upward by switching on a bulb in the headlamp that strikes the lens at a different angle.
[15] flue-cured, light-hued tobacco.
[16] an artist's paintbrush having short, square-edged bristles.
[17] Archaic . brightness; splendor.
[18] in a bright manner; brightly.
[19] US the high beam of the headlights of a motor vehicle
[20] John . 1811–89, British liberal statesman, economist, and advocate of free trade: with Richard Cobden he led the Anti-Corn-Law League (1838–46)
[21] emitting or reflecting much light; shining
[22] (of colours) intense or vivid
[23] full of promise a bright future
[24] full of animation; cheerful a bright face
[25] informal quick witted or clever a bright child
[26] magnificent; glorious a bright victory
[27] polished; glistening a bright finish
[28] (of the voice) distinct and clear
[29] (of a liquid) translucent and clear a circle of bright water
[30] bright and early very early in the morning
[31] a thin flat paintbrush with a straight sharp edge used for highlighting in oil painting
[32] poetic brightness or splendour the bright of his armour
[33] brightly the fire was burning bright

Words related to Brightly

brightdaylight, daybreak, dawning, morning, dawn, light, aurora, sunup, morn, cockcrow, sunrise, sunshine, sunlight, daytime, dayspring, bright

Words nearby Brightly

brightbriggs, briggsian logarithm, brigham, brigham city, brighouse, bright, bright and early, bright coal, bright idea, bright lights, bright side

Origin of Brightly

before 1000; Middle English; Old English breht, beorht; cognate with Gothic bairht(s ), Old Saxon ber(a)ht, Old High German beraht, Old Norse bjartr; Welsh berth splendid (< *berkto- ); akin to Latin flagrāre to blaze (see flagrant), Albanian (i ) bardhë white, Sanskrit bhrājate(it ) shines

Other words from Brightly

bright·ish , adjective
bright·ly , adverb
o·ver·bright , adjective
o·ver·bright·ly , adverb
o·ver·bright·ness , noun
su·per·bright , adjective
un·bright , adjective
un·bright·ly , adverb
un·bright·ness , noun

Word origin for Brightly

Old English beorht ; related to Old Norse bjartr , Gothic bairhts clear, Old High German beraht , Norwegian bjerk , Swedish brokig pied

Synonyms for Brightly

brilliantly, splendidly, blazingly, dazzlingly, glaringly, gleamingly, glisteningly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously, radiantly, shinily, shiningly, sparklingly