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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for bright:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bright
    adv 1: with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the
           windows glowed jewel bright" [syn: brilliantly,
           brightly, 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 dress"; "brilliant
       tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright,
       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: bright,
       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: bright, 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, bright]
       [ant: dim, dimmed]
    8: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet
       section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" [syn:
       bright, brilliant]
    9: characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all
       the world seems bright and gay"
    10: full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the
        scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political
        career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway" [syn: bright,
        hopeful, promising]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bright \Bright\, n.
   Splendor; brightness. [Poetic]
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         Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bright \Bright\, adv.
   Brightly. --Chaucer.
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         I say it is the moon that shines so bright. --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bright \Bright\, v. i.
   See Brite, v. i.
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5. 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['i]rhts.
   [root]94.]
   1. Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much
      light; shining; luminous; not dark.
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            The sun was bright o'erhead.          --Longfellow.
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            The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright.
                                                  --Drake.
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            The public places were as bright as at noonday.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. Transmitting light; clear; transparent.
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            From the brightest wines
            He 'd turn abhorrent.                 --Thomson.
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   3. Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or
      that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent
      with charms; as, bright beauty.
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            Bright as an angel new-dropped from the sky.
                                                  --Parnell.
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   4. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
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   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.
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            That he may with more ease, with brighter evidence,
            and with surer success, draw the bearner on. --I.
                                                  Watts.
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   8. Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
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            Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. --Pope.
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   Note: Bright is used in composition in the sense of
         brilliant, clear, sunny, etc.; as, bright-eyed,
         bright-haired, bright-hued.
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   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.
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6. 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.]
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7. 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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