Synonyms: 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
Similar words: auspicious
Definition: auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
Usage: an auspicious beginning for the campaign
Synonyms: bright
Definition: having lots of light either natural or artificial
Usage: the room was bright and airy; a stage bright with spotlights
Similar words: light
Definition: characterized by or emitting light
Usage: a room that is light when the shutters are open; the inside of the house was airy and light
Synonyms: bright
Definition: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
Usage: the sun was bright and hot; a bright sunlit room
Similar words: nitid, gleaming, agleam
Definition: bright with a steady but subdued shining
Usage: from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights; the gleaming brass on the altar; Nereids beneath the nitid moon
Similar words: aglow, lucent, luminous, lambent
Definition: softly bright or radiant
Usage: a house aglow with lights; glowing embers; lambent tongues of flame; the lucent moon; a sky luminous with stars
Similar words: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery
Definition: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
Usage: bugle beads all aglitter; glinting eyes; glinting water; his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent; shop window full of glittering Christmas trees; glittery costume jewelry; scintillant mica; the scintillating stars; a dress with sparkly sequins; `glistering' is an archaic term
Similar words: buttonlike, buttony, beadlike, beady
Definition: small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
Usage: bright beady eyes; black buttony eyes
Similar words: beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent, radiant
Definition: radiating or as if radiating light
Usage: the beaming sun; the effulgent daffodils; a radiant sunrise; a refulgent sunset
Similar words: fulgent, blazing, blinding, glaring, glary, dazzling
Definition: shining intensely
Usage: the blazing sun; blinding headlights; dazzling snow; fulgent patterns of sunlight; the glaring sun
Similar words: bright as a new penny
Definition: (metaphor) shining brightly
Similar words: brilliant
Definition: full of light; shining intensely
Usage: a brilliant star; brilliant chandeliers
Similar words: ardent
Definition: glowing or shining like fire
Usage: from rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes- Alexander Pope; frightened by his ardent burning eyes
Similar words: glimmery
Definition: shining softly and intermittently
Usage: glimmery candlelight
Similar words: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny
Definition: reflecting light
Usage: glistening bodies of swimmers; the horse's glossy coat; lustrous auburn hair; saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet; shining white enamel
Similar words: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent
Definition: having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
Usage: an iridescent oil slick; nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl; a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster
Similar words: lurid
Definition: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
Usage: a lurid sunset; lurid flames
Similar words: noctilucent
Definition: shining or glowing by night
Usage: the noctilucent eyes of a cat
Similar words: silken, silklike, silky, satiny, sleek, slick
Definition: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
Usage: glossy auburn hair; satiny gardenia petals; sleek black fur; silken eyelashes; silky skin; a silklike fabric; slick seals and otters
Similar words: self-luminous
Definition: having in itself the property of emitting light
Similar words: shimmery
Definition: glistening tremulously
Usage: the shimmery surface of the lake; a dress of shimmery satin
Similar words: silver, silvern, silvery
Definition: having the white lustrous sheen of silver
Usage: a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap; repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
Similar words: twinkling
Definition: shining intermittently with a sparkling light
Usage: twinkling stars
Synonyms: bright, brilliant, vivid
Definition: having striking color
Usage: bright dress; brilliant tapestries; a bird with vivid plumage
Synonyms: bright
Definition: splendid
Usage: the bright stars of stage and screen; a bright moment in history; the bright pageantry of court
Similar words: glorious
Definition: having or deserving or conferring glory
Usage: a long and glorious career; our glorious literature
Synonyms: bright
Definition: characterized by happiness or gladness
Usage: bright faces; all the world seems bright and gay
Similar words: happy
Definition: enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
Usage: a happy smile; spent many happy days on the beach; a happy marriage
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
Similar words: intelligent
Definition: having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
Usage: is there intelligent life in the universe?; an intelligent question
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: polished
Definition: perfected or made shiny and smooth
Usage: his polished prose; in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes; freshly polished silver
Definition: clear and sharp and ringing
Usage: the bright sound of the trumpet section; the brilliant sound of the trumpets
Similar words: reverberant
Definition: having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
Usage: a reverberant room; the reverberant booms of cannon