Word Finder - brightest

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Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.

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Could you please dim the light? It's far too bright.

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Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

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He's very bright. He was able to solve the problem without my help.

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Vivid, colourful, brilliant.

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The orange and blue walls of the sitting room were much brighter than the dull grey walls of the kitchen.

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Happy, in good spirits.

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I woke up today feeling so bright that I decided to have a little dance.

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Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.

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Illustrious; glorious.

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Clear; transparent.

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Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.

But the brightest summer has winter behind it.

The brightest days of Sicily ended with William the Good.

This is powerful; it allows the best and brightest to collaborate easily.

He is now the brightest star in the sky.

I got to meet the best and brightest people.

You.re both the brightest and dumbest man I.ve ever met.

He ain't the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, is he?

With the development of observational astronomy the sidereal universe was arbitrarily divided into areas characterized by special assemblages of stars; these assemblages were named asterisms by Ptolemy, who termed the brightest stars "of the fi rst magnitude," and the progressively fainter Stars.

The different maxima differ considerably in brightness; thus in 1906 (the brightest maximum since 1779) the second magnitude was reached, but in other years (as in 1868) it has failed to reach the fifth magnitude.

In the next two days it reached zero magnitude, thus becoming the brightest star in the northern heavens, but after that it rapidly decreased.

About ioo Wolf-Rayet stars are known, of which y Velorum is the brightest; they are confined to the region of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds.

More accurate determinations have shown that this star, which is the third brightest star in the heavens, has a parallax of 0.75", this indicates that its distance is 25,000,000,000,000 m.

The stars selected to be examined for parallax are usually either the brightest stars or those with an especially large proper motion.

Brightness is particularly deceptive; thus Canopus, the second brightest star in the heavens, has probably a parallax of less than 0.01 ", and so also has Rigel.

The penumbra remains the penumbra, but it is now darkest where before it was brightest, and vice versa.

The Sumerians and Accadians, the non-Semitic inhabitants of the Euphrates valley prior to the Babylonians, described the stars collectively as a " heavenly flock "; the sun was the " old sheep "; the seven planets were the " old-sheep stars "; the whole of the stars had certain " shepherds, " and Sibzianna (which, according to Sayce and Bosanquet, is the modern Arcturus, the brightest star in the northern sky) was the " star of the shepherds of the heavenly herds."

The portal opened, and she bounded through it, running to the brightest portal and through it to emerge on the snowy park behind the castle.

We had a lovely evening with the best Aurora I have seen, and then the brightest stars.

Most of the brightest and most spectacular comets have been ones which have appeared only once and have never been seen again.

A sport which is at once the best-loved and most widely despised will be seen in its brightest colors.

He was, in scholarly terms, perhaps the brightest star in even that bright firmament of Univ Fellows.

Probably the brightest & longest glowing glow in the dark keyring in the world...

The satellite registered the space object at the moment of its brightest luminescence.

The brightest stars in the cluster have a luminosity equal to 300,000 stars like our own Sun.

The crab nebula is the brightest supernova remnant in the sky.

Nova rising soon after to mag 4 making it one of the brightest nova rising soon after to mag 4 making it one of the brightest novae for some years.

The brightest speckle was found to decay on similar timescales.

The brightest known stars in our galaxy are very luminous red supergiants.

It was the brightest supernova visible from Earth since the 1054 observation of the birth of the Crab.

The rest were half this size, brilliant little gems with bellies of butter-yellow and spots of the brightest vermilion on their flanks.

The most brilliant episode of the battle was the entire defeat of the French cavalry by the British infantry (with whom there were some Hanoverian troops); but Minden, though it is one of the brightest days in the history of the British army, has its dark side also, for the British cavalry commander Lord George Sackville (see Sackville, Viscount) refused to obey the order to advance, several times sent by Duke Ferdinand, and thereby robbed the victory of the decisive results which were to be expected from the success of the infantry.

But his most wonderful work is the painting of the trees, which look, after his task is done, as if they were covered with the brightest layers of gold and rubies; and are beautiful enough to comfort us for the flight of summer.

More Six of the Best Camellias Camellias make one of the brightest blooms in any springtime garden.

Rather than fear the process of choosing the right lipstick, go ahead and take a stroll down the cosmetic aisle and find the brightest, boldest, sexiest shade of red.

When the game starts, you want to watch the meter in the left hand corner of the screen and try to hit the spacebar as close as you can to the end of the meter where the brightest red is.

Maybe brightest winter white is your shade.

These April celebrity birthdays feature some of the brightest stars in Hollywood.

Much to the delight of viewers, a second series aired in 2003.After the completion of Pop Idol's second season, Cowell moved forward with The X Factor, a similar series that focused on finding the country's brightest pop star.

However, a socio-anthropological view of humanity reveals that those who have the brightest plumes endure the brightest futures.

E. Fendleri bears some of the brightest flowers.

H. pratensis has stout and erect flower-stems, about 1 foot high, and the brightest scarlet flowers, feathered here and there at the base with yellow.

Though not common in gardens, it is one of the brightest gems for the choice rock garden, and thrives in exposed positions in moist sandy peat soil, and should be associated with the dwarfest rock plants.

Among the hybrid Paeonias there is much variety of color-white, pale yellow, salmon, flesh-pink, and numerous intermediate shades from carmine to brightest purple.

Partridge Berry (Gaultheria) - Dwarf evergreen shrubs, G. procumbens having berries which give it a charm in winter, when it is one of the brightest plants in the rock garden.

Ignea - One of the brightest in its uniform carmine-red, deepening slightly towards the crown of vivid orange-red stamens; sepals pale olive-green edged with rose beneath, and paler above.

The bridge pickup (the one furthest from the headstock) produces the brightest, loudest sound.

Track lighting can highlight the various work areas in a room to give the brightest light, all without cumbersome desk lamps or cords.

Waistcoats were often still the brightest part of a man's outfit.

Shine your brightest right from the start with these tips.

In order to accomplish this, each clip is made of a polarized lens that ensures relaxed vision and enhanced clarity during the brightest of sunny days!