Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts.

Roget 498: intelligent [Applied to persons], quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp-eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted etc. 510; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute^†; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to etc. (cognizant) 490; clever etc. (apt) 698; arch etc. (cunning) 702; pas si bete [Fr.]; acute etc. 682.    wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens [Lat.], judicious, strong-minded.    unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted^†, unprepossessed^†; undazzled^†, unperplexed^†; unwarped judgment^†, impartial, equitable, fair.    cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound.    oracular; heaven-directed, heaven-born.    prudent etc. (cautious) 864; sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic, wise in one's generation; watchful etc. 459; provident etc. (prepared) 673; in advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon.    [Applied to actions] wise, sensible, reasonable, judicious; well-thought-out, well-planned, well-judged, well-advised; prudent, politic; expedient etc. 646.    ... show more

Polish: jasny

Having strong or striking color:
— Bright dress.

synonyms: brilliant, vivid.

Roget 873: distinguished, distingue [Fr.], noted; of note etc. n.; honored etc. v.; popular; fashionable etc. 852.    in good odor in; favor, in high favor; reputable, respectable, creditable.    remarkable etc. (important) 642; notable, notorious; celebrated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed; conspicuous, to the front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant.    imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere perennius [Lat.]; time honored.    illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright etc. 420; full-blown; honorific.    eminent, prominent; high etc. 206; in the zenith; at the head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.   ; superior etc. 33; supereminent, preeminent.    great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately, august, princely.    imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred, sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.]; sacrosanct.    ... show more

Roget 845: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive etc. (inviting) 615; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scot.]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical etc. (regular) 242; harmonious etc. (color) 428; sightly.    fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.    goodly, dapper, tight, jimp^†; gimp; janty^†, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy^†.    bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom.    brilliant, shining; beamy^†, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.    rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious.    artistic, artistical^†; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre [Fr.]; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious.    enchanting etc. (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming etc. (accordant) 23; ornamental etc. 847.    undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless etc. (perfect) 650.    ... show more

Roget 428: colored etc. v.; colorific^†, tingent^†, tinctorial^†; chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous^†; tingible^†.    bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded^†; rich, gorgeous; gay.    gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy, flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.    mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.    ... show more

Polish: jaskrawy, żarówiasty, żarzysty

Characterized by quickness and ease in learning:
— Some children are brighter in one subject than another.

synonym: smart.

Polish: lotny, pojętny

Having lots of light either natural or artificial.

Polish: jasny

Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow:
— Bright silver candlesticks.

synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny.

Roget 420: shining etc. v.; luminous, luminiferous^†; lucid, lucent, luculent^†, lucific^†, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent^†, nitid^†, lustrous, shiny, beamy^†, scintillant^†, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured^†.    gairish^†, garish; resplendent, transplendent^†; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid^†, fulgent^†; relucent^†, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant^†, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow.    bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday.    actinic; photogenic, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous^†.    ... show more

Splendid.

Not made dim or less bright.

synonym: undimmed.

Clear and sharp and ringing:
— The bright sound of the trumpet section.

synonym: brilliant.

Characterized by happiness or gladness.

Likely to turn out well in the future:
— Had a bright future in publishing.

synonyms: hopeful, promising.

Roget 858: hoping etc. v.; in hopes etc. n.; hopeful, confident; secure etc. (certain) 484; sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome^†; utopian.    unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair; undespairing^†, self reliant.    probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure [Fr.]; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose [Fr.], rose-colored.    ... show more

Roget 836: cheerful; happy etc. 827; cheery, cheerly^†; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper [U.S.]; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty^†, jaunty, canty^†; hedonic^†; riant^†; sprightly, sprightful^†; spry; spirited, spiritful^†; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.    sunny, palmy; hopeful etc. 858.    merry as a cricket, merry as a grig^†, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy^†; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome^†; hilarious, rattling.    winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom.    playful, playsome^†; folatre [Fr.], playful as a kitten, tricksy^†, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.    elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing etc. 838; cock-a-hoop.    cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal^†; pleasing etc. 829; palmy.    ... show more

With brightness:
— The windows glowed jewel bright.

synonyms: brightly, brilliantly.