Thesaurus
bright
Synonyms and Antonyms of bright
- in the desert the sun was so bright that it hurt my eyes
- the moon is bright tonight
ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot
agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking
- the display windows of department stores are especially bright at Christmastime
ablaze, alight, brightened, illuminated, illumined, light, lightsome, lit (or lighted)
floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit)
- always walks into work with a bright smile on his face
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, chirpy, jaunty, lilting, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious
carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned
boon, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful
blissful, delighted, glad, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, tickled
joyless, sad, unhappy, unsatisfied
dull, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid
blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, hangdog, heavyhearted, inconsolable, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mirthless, sorrowful
- a company that is always looking for bright, ambitious college graduates
acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
boobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
- predicted a bright future for the young math whiz
- all the signs are bright right now for an economic boom
- a bright and beautiful morning to begin planting our garden
- a bright new star on the operatic scene
- a room full of summer interns with bright, eager faces
brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, gleaming, luminous, refulgent, shining, starry
blithe, blithesome, bright, cheerful, cheery, chipper, gay, gladsome, lightsome, merry, mirthful, optimistic, upbeat
jocund, jovial, laughing, smiling
blissful, chuffed [British], delighted, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, thankful, tickled
- we'll have a picnic on the next bright day
Synonym Discussion of bright
bright
Synonyms and Antonyms of bright
- the storm passed, and once again the sun shone bright
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