Antonyms for bright

Antonyms for (adj) bright

Main entry: bright

Definition: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts

Usage: the sun was bright and hot; a bright sunlit room

Antonyms: dull

Definition: emitting or reflecting very little light


Main entry: bright, undimmed

Definition: not made dim or less bright

Usage: undimmed headlights; surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed

Antonyms: dim, dimmed

Definition: made dim or less bright


Main entry: bright

Definition: having lots of light either natural or artificial

Usage: the room was bright and airy; a stage bright with spotlights

Antonyms: dark, darkness

Definition: absence of light or illumination


Antonyms: dark

Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black


Antonyms: dark

Definition: (used of color) having a dark hue


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: of comparatively great physical weight or density


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: unusually great in degree or quantity or number


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: of great intensity or power or force


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment


Main entry: promising, hopeful, bright

Definition: full or promise

Usage: had a bright future in publishing; the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career; a hopeful new singer on Broadway

Antonyms: inauspicious, unfortunate

Definition: not auspicious; boding ill


Main entry: bright

Definition: splendid

Usage: the bright stars of stage and screen; a bright moment in history; the bright pageantry of court

Antonyms: inglorious

Definition: not bringing honor and glory


Main entry: bright, brilliant, vivid

Definition: having striking color

Usage: bright dress; brilliant tapestries; a bird with vivid plumage

Antonyms: colorless, colourless

Definition: weak in color; not colorful


Antonyms: colorless, colourless

Definition: lacking in variety and interest


Main entry: bright

Definition: characterized by happiness or gladness

Usage: bright faces; all the world seems bright and gay

Antonyms: unhappy

Definition: experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent


Main entry: bright, burnished, shining, shiny, lustrous

Definition: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

Usage: 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

Antonyms: unpolished

Definition: not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing


Main entry: bright, smart

Definition: characterized by quickness and ease in learning

Usage: some children are brighter in one subject than another; smart children talk earlier than the average

Antonyms: stupid, unintelligent

Definition: lacking intelligence


Main entry: bright, brilliant

Definition: clear and sharp and ringing

Usage: the bright sound of the trumpet section; the brilliant sound of the trumpets

Antonyms: unreverberant, nonresonant

Definition: not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate


Visual thesaurus for bright