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  1. adjective Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; shining.
  2. adjective Comparatively high on the scale of brightness.
  3. adjective Full of light or illumination: a bright sunny day; a stage bright with spotlights.
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  • "I imagine them to be very quick, very bright--bright as chimpanzees and more vicious," he says. —  Omni: July 1993
  • He used to be what they called a bright Mason, once presiding, in the absence of the Master, over the Grand Lodge of the State. —  Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • His kidney flared nova-bright, and he was paper; he felt himself part before the blade the way a sheet of heavy-bond typing paper would. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
  • The first editor of The Chronicle was described as a bright, energetic young man, named J.H. Cradlebaugh.
  • I mean … Kanako isn't really what you call a bright person. —  Anime Nano!
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English beorht; see bherəg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bright, briht, etc., from Anglo-Saxon bryht, briht, transposed forms of the usual beorht = Old Saxon berht, beraht = Old High German beraht, bereht, Middle High German berht (in G. remaining only in proper names, Albrecht, Ruprecht, etc.; frequently so used in Anglo-Saxon and Low German) = Icelandic bjartr = Gothic (Moesogothic) bairhts, bright; prob., with old past participle suffix -t, from Teutonic √*berh = Sanskrit √ bhrāj, shine, perhaps = Latin flag- in flagrare, flame, blaze, burn, flamma (*flagma), flame, = Greek φλέγειν, blaze, burn. Cf. black, bleak.
  2. from Middle English brighte, briʒte, brihte, from briht, bright: see bright, a.
  3. from Middle English bright, brigt, from Anglo-Saxon byrhtu, birhtu (= Old High German berahti), feminine, beorht, neuter, brightness, from beorht, bright: see bright, a.
  4. from Middle English brighten, brihten (with reg. infinitive suffix -en), from Anglo-Saxon byrhtan, be bright, geberhtan, make bright (= Old High German giberehtōn = Gothic (Moesogothic) gabairhtjan, make bright), from beorht, bright.
 

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