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• bright — [ braıt ] adjective *** ▸ 1 with strong color ▸ 2 full of light ▸ 3 intelligent ▸ 4 lively ▸ 5 likely to succeed ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) usually before noun bright colors are strong but not dark: She was wearing a bright red scarf. His eyes are bright… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• bright — adj 1 Bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous, effulgent, refulgent, beaming, lambent, lucent, incandescent are comparable when they mean actually or seemingly shining or glowing with light. Bright implies an opposition to dim or dull; it… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• bright — [[t]bra͟ɪt[/t]] ♦♦ brights, brighter, brightest 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n, ADJ colour A bright colour is strong and noticeable, and not dark. ...a bright red dress. ...the bright uniforms of the guards parading at Buckingham Palace. Derived words …   English dictionary

• bright — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. brilliant, shining, glistening; luminous; clever, intelligent; gay, flashing, sparkling. See color, intelligence, light. Ant., dark, dim; stupid; clouded, dismal. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Shining] …   English dictionary for students

• bright — /braIt/ adjective 1 LIGHT shining strongly or with plenty of light: bright sunlight | bright lights | a new, bright, fully air conditioned office 2 INTELLIGENT intelligent and likely to be successful: Rosa s a bright child she should do well at… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• bright — Synonyms and related words: Leibnizian, Saturnian, adroit, advanced, agile, aglow, alert, alight, alive, animate, animated, apt, astute, attentive, auspicious, awake, balmy, beaming, bedazzling, benign, benignant, blazing, bleached, blinding,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• clever — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, able, acute, adept, adroit, agile, alert, all around, amusing, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, biting, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, cagey, canny …   Moby Thesaurus

• sharp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cutting (see sharpness); distinct, well defined; abrupt, angular; pungent, penetrating; acute, keen; alert, smart, quick; elegant, smart. See visibility, pungency, wit, elegance. Ant., dull. n.… …   English dictionary for students

• Russian jokes — ( ru. анекдоты (transcribed anekdoty), literally anecdotes) the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russian joke culture features a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar… …   Wikipedia

• dim — I UK [dɪm] / US adjective Word forms dim : adjective dim comparative dimmer superlative dimmest 1) dim light is not bright the dim glow of the streetlamp a) dim places do not have much light in them, so you cannot see very well The room was very… …   English dictionary

• dim — [dɪm] adj I 1) not bright or clear a dim light/room[/ex] 2) a dim memory is something from long ago that you cannot remember very well Ant: clear 3) British informal not clever Ant: brainy dimly adv II verb [I/T] dim [dɪm] if a light dims, or if… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English