[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bright \bright\, n.
   splendor; brightness. poetic
   1913 webster

         dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. --milton.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bright \bright\, v. i.
   see brite, v. i.
   1913 webster
see also:
brite 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bright \bright\, a. oe. briht, as. beorht, briht; akin to os.
   berht, ohg. beraht, icel. bjartr, goth. ba'irhts.
   root94.
   1. radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much
      light; shining; luminous; not dark.
      1913 webster

            the sun was bright o'erhead.          --longfellow.
      1913 webster

            the earth was dark, but the heavens were bright.
                                                  --drake.
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            the public places were as bright as at noonday.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. transmitting light; clear; transparent.
      1913 webster

            from the brightest wines
            he 'd turn abhorrent.                 --thomson.
      1913 webster

   3. having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or
      that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent
      with charms; as, bright beauty.
      1913 webster

            bright as an angel new-dropped from the sky.
                                                  --parnell.
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   4. having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
      1913 webster

   5. sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding
      cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
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            be bright and jovial among your guests. --shak.
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   6. illustrious; glorious.
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            in the brightest annals of a female reign. --cotton.
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   7. manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear;
      evident; plain.
      1913 webster

            that he may with more ease, with brighter evidence,
            and with surer success, draw the bearner on. --i.
                                                  watts.
      1913 webster

   8. of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
      1913 webster

            here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. --pope.
      1913 webster

   note: bright is used in composition in the sense of
         brilliant, clear, sunny, etc.; as, bright-eyed,
         bright-haired, bright-hued.
         1913 webster

   bright side the positive or favorable aspects of a
      situation.

   to look on the bright side to focus the attention on
      favorable aspects of a situation; to minimize attention to
      possible negative or unfavorable factors in a situation.
      pjc

   syn: shining; splending; luminous; lustrous; brilliant;
        resplendent; effulgent; refulgent; radiant; sparkling;
        glittering; lucid; beamy; clear; transparent;
        illustrious; witty; clear; vivacious; sunny.
        1913 webster
see also:
bright side to look on the bright side 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bright \bright\, adv.
   brightly. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

         i say it is the moon that shines so bright. --shak.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

brite \brite\, bright \bright\, v. t.
   to be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops. prov.
   eng.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bright
     adj 1: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts;
            "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
            ant: dull
     2: having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant
        tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" syn: brilliant,
         vivid
     3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some
        children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart
        children talk earlier than the average" syn: smart
     4: having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room
        was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights"
     5: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
        sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
        brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
        lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
        black patents" syn: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny
     6: splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright
        moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"
     7: not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights";
        "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the
        houselights were still undimmed" syn: undimmed ant: dimmed
     8: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the
        trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"
        syn: brilliant
     9: characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all
        the world seems bright and gay"
     10: abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining
         norming"- john muir; "when it is warm and shiny" syn: shining,
          shiny, sunshiny, sunny
     11: full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the
         scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political
         career" syn: promising
     adv : with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows
           glowed jewel bright" syn: brilliantly, brightly
see also:
dull brilliant vivid smart burnished lustrous 
shining shiny undimmed dimmed sunshiny 
sunny promising brilliantly brightly 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

307 moby thesaurus words for "bright":
   leibnizian, saturnian, adroit, advanced, agile, aglow, alert,
   alight, alive, animate, animated, apt, astute, attentive,
   auspicious, awake, balmy, beaming, bedazzling, benign, benignant,
   blazing, bleached, blinding, blithe, blithesome, blooming, brainy,
   brave, bright and shining, bright and sunny, bright-hued,
   brilliant, burning, burnished, cant, charismatic, cheerful, cheery,
   chiliastic, clean, cleanly, clear, clever, cloudless, colorful,
   colory, conceptive, conceptual, coruscating, couleur de rose,
   dainty, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, dexter, dexterous,
   dirt-free, discursive, distinguished, divine, docile, educable,
   effulgent, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
   exotic, exuberant, facile, fair, fastidious, favorable, favoring,
   flamboyant, flaming, flashing, fluorescent, flushed, formable,
   fortunate, fresh, fulgent, fulgid, full of promise, garish, gay,
   gay-colored, genial, gifted, glad, gladsome, glamorous, glaring,
   glary, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing,
   golden, good, gorgeous, halcyon, happy, harmless, heavenly, high,
   high-colored, hopeful, ideational, illuminated, illustrious,
   immaculate, impressionable, in good spirits, in high spirits,
   incandescent, ingenious, instructable, intellectual, intelligent,
   intense, inviolate, irrepressible, keen, keen-witted, killing,
   knowing, kosher, lambent, laughing, light, lighted, lively, lucent,
   lucid, lucky, luminous, lustrous, magic, magnificent, malleable,
   mild, millenarian, millennialistic, mint, moldable, motivated,
   nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, noetic, nonpolluted,
   not born yesterday, not so dumb, numinous, of cleanly habits,
   of good cheer, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, on the,
   on the alert, on the ball, on the job, optimistic, outstanding,
   perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plastic, pleasant, pliable,
   polished, precocious, pristine, promising, prompt, propitious,
   prosperous, pure, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted,
   radiant, rational, raving, ravishing, ready, reasonable, receptive,
   refulgent, resplendent, riant, rich, rich-colored,
   ripe for instruction, ritually pure, rose-colored, roseate, rosy,
   sane, sanguine, sanguineous, scatheless, schoolable, scintillating,
   sensible, sharp, sharp-witted, shimmering, shining, shiny,
   sleepless, smart, smiling, smut-free, smutless, sophic, sparkling,
   spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, spotless,
   sprightly, stainless, steel-trap, strong-minded, stunning, sublime,
   sunny, sunshiny, susceptible, sweet, tahar, talented, teachable,
   thirsty for knowledge, trainable, tubbed, unadulterated,
   unbesmirched, unblemished, unblinking, unblotted, unbroken,
   unbruised, unclouded, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed,
   undemolished, understanding, undestroyed, undimmed, unfaded,
   unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled,
   unmarked, unmarred, unmuddied, unnodding, unpolluted, unscarred,
   unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unsleeping, unsmirched,
   unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied,
   untainted, untarnished, untorn, untouched, unwinking, unwithered,
   unworn, upbeat, utopian, virgin, vivacious, vivid, wakeful,
   well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, wide-awake, willing,
   winsome, witty

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

bright, in cdp, fips 7624
  location: 39.20265 n, 84.85758 w
  population 1990: 3945 1244 housing units
  area: 37.9 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

bright, in -- u.s. census designated place in indiana
   population 2000:    5405
   housing units 2000: 1811
   land area 2000:     14.308764 sq. miles 37.059527 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    14.308764 sq. miles 37.059527 sq. km
   fips code:            07624
   located within:       indiana in, fips 18
   location:             39.218114 n, 84.862357 w
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    bright, in
    bright

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