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Old English bryht, metathesis of beorht, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (compare Dutch brecht, Norwegian bjart), from pre-Celtic/Germanic *bherhxgto (compare Welsh berth 'beautiful'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- 'to gleam, whiten' (compare Middle Irish brafad 'blink of an eye', Lithuanian brekšta 'to dawn', Russian brezg 'dawn, daybreak', Albanian bardhë 'white', Persian barâzîdan 'to shine', Sanskrit bhrájate).
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bright (comparative brighter, superlative brightest)
- Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
- Could you please dim the light? It's way too bright.
- Intelligent, brilliant.
- He's very bright. He was able to solve the problem without my help.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16
- --Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.
- Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
- The orange and blue walls of the sitting room were much brighter than the dull grey walls of the kitchen.
- Happy.
- I woke up today feeling so bright that I decided to have a little dance.
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visually dazzling, luminous, radiant
- Arabic: لامع (ar) (laami3), نير (ar) (nayyir)
- Armenian: պայծառ (hy) (payçaṙ)
- Bulgarian: светъл (bg), ярък (bg)
- Chamicuro: tsenewa
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 明亮 (cmn) (míngliàng), 亮 (cmn) (liàng), 明 (cmn) (míng)
- Cornish: splann (kw), (Revived Late Cornish) spladn (kw)
- Czech: jasný (cs)
- Danish: lys (da), funklende (da), klar (da)
- Dutch: helder (nl), fel (nl)
- Finnish: kirkas (fi)
- French: brillant (fr), luisant (fr), clair (fr)
- German: hell (de), glänzend (de), strahlend (de)
- Hebrew: בהיר (bahyr) m., בהירה (behira) f.
- Icelandic: bjartur (is) m., björt (is) f., bjart (is) n.; skær (is) m. and f., skært (is) n.; skínandi (is) m., f., and n., ljómandi (is) m., f., and n.
- Interlingua: brillante
- Italian: brillante (it), luminoso (it), lucente (it)
- Japanese: 明るい (ja) (あかるい, akarui)
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- Korean: 밝다 (ko) (bakda) (spelled: "balgda")
- Kurdish: بریقهدار
- Lithuanian: ryškus, šviesus
- Luxembourgish: hell (lb), blénkeg (lb), fénkeleg (lb)
- Manx: sullyr (gv)
- Norwegian: lys (no)
- Portuguese: claro (pt), brilhante (pt), luminoso (pt), radiante (pt)
- Romanian: luminos (ro), clar (ro), strălucitor (ro)
- Russian: яркий (ru) (járkij), светлый (ru) (svétlyj), сияющий (ru) (sijájuščij)
- Scots: bricht
- Scottish Gaelic: soilleir (gd)
- Spanish: claro (es), brillante (es), resplandeciente (es), luminoso (es), lucio (es)
- Swedish: ljus (sv)
- Tagalog: maliwanag (tl)
- Telugu: ప్రకాశవంతమైన (prakaashavantamaina)
- Tupinambá: endypuk (s)
- Turkish: parlak (tr), aydınlık (tr)
- Urdu: روشن (ur) (rauśan)
- Vietnamese: sáng (vi), sáng sủa (vi)
- Welsh: hoyw (cy)
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intelligent
- Armenian: փայլուն (p'aylun)
- Bulgarian: умен (bg)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (simplified) 聪明 (cmn) (cōngmíng), (traditional) 聰明 (cmn)
- Czech: bystrý (cs)
- Danish: opvakt (da), kvik (da)
- Dutch: slim (nl), intelligent (nl)
- Finnish: terävä, älykäs, fiksu (colloquial), välkky (fi)
- French: intelligent (fr), brillant (fr) m.
- German: intelligent (de), brilliant (de)
- Guaraní: katupyry
- Icelandic: greindur (is) m., greind (is) f., greint (is) n.; skarpur (is) m., skörp (is) f., skarpt (is) n.; greindarlegur (is) m., greindarleg (is) f., greindarlegt (is) n.
- Indonesian: pintar (id)
- Interlingua: intelligente
- Italian: brillante (it), intelligente (it)
- Japanese: 賢い (かしこい, kashikoi), 聡明な (そうめいな, sōmeina)
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- Korean: 밝다 (balgda, bakda)
- Kurdish: زیرهک
- Lithuanian: gudrus, protingas
- Luxembourgish: intelligent (lb), brillant (lb)
- Norwegian: intelligent (no), dyktig (no), klok (no)
- Portuguese: brilhante (pt), inteligente (pt)
- Romanian: deștept (ro)
- Russian: умный (úmnyj), блестящий (bl'est'áš'ij)
- Scots: bricht
- Scottish Gaelic: geur (gd), tuigseach (gd), toinisgeil (gd)
- Slovene: inteligenten, brihten
- Spanish: brillante (es), inteligente (es), genial (es)
- Swedish: intelligent (sv), klyftig (sv)
- Tagalog: matalino (tl)
- Telugu: తెలివైన (telivaina)
- Tupinambá: akangatu
- Vietnamese: sánh dạ, thông minh, nhanh trí, sáng sủa
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vivid
- Armenian: պայծառ (hy) (payçaṙ)
- Bulgarian: жив (bg), весел (bg), буден (bg)
- Czech: jasný (cs)
- Danish: munter (da), livlig (da)
- Dutch: bont (nl), levendig (nl), monter (nl)
- Finnish: kirkas (fi)
- French: vivide (fr) m. and f., brillant (fr) m.
- German: lebhaft (de)
- Icelandic: skær (is) m. and f., skært (is) n.; bjartur (is) m., björt (is) f., bjart (is) n.
- Interlingua: vive
- Italian: brillante (it), allegro (it)
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[edit] See also
bright (plural brights)
- An artists brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
- A neologism intended as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various kinds of non-religious and non-superstitious people. (There is a Wikipedia article on this usage.)
- Definition A person whose world view is free of supernatural and mystical elements. The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic world view. (2003, Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell)
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