brightest

Adjective

bright (comparative brighter, superlative brightest)

1. Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
   • The sky was remarkably bright and blue on that beautiful summer day.
2. Of light: brilliant, intense.
   • Could you please dim the light? It’s far too bright.
3. Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.

   Synonyms:

   lustrous, gleamy, glisteny, mirrorlike, mirrory, relucent, shining, shiny, splendent, zazzy

   Antonyms:

   dull

4. Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
   • It was said that the Irish whom [Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of] Feversham had let loose were marching on London and massacring every man, woman, and child on the road. At one in the morning the drums of the militia beat to arms. […] Before two the capital wore a face of stern preparedness which might...1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 564
5. Of climate or weather: not cloudy or gloomy; fair; also, of a period of time, the sky, etc.: characterized by much sunshine and good weather.
   • [H]e felt the influence of the bright sky, and looked up smiling into its deep unfathomable blue.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 77.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 392
6. (figuratively, transferred senses) Clearly apparent; conspicuous.
   • They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169

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