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What is the adjective for brighter?

What's the adjective for brighter? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb brighten which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

bright
  1. Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
  2. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
  3. Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
  4. Happy, in good spirits.
  5. Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
  6. Illustrious; glorious.
  7. Clear; transparent.
  8. (archaic) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. shining, light, brilliant, vivid, blazing, dazzling, beaming, intense, glaring, sparkling, flashing, glittering, scintillating, gleaming, glowing, aglow, twinkling, flickering, glistening, shimmering, luminous, luminescent, radiant, incandescent, phosphorescent, fluorescent, shiny, lustrous, glossy, sheeny, polished, varnished, irradiant, lucent, effulgent, refulgent, fulgent, lucid, glistering, coruscating, lambent, fulgurant, fulgurating, fulgurous, glimmering, glittery, iridescent, bedazzling, candescent, splendid … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “They basked on the beach underneath the gloriously bright sunshine.”
      “The room remained bright with the light still on.”
      “The day was bright, warm and perfect for a day spent lounging at the park.”
brightsome
  1. (archaic) Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. brilliant, luminous
  3. Examples:
      4. “The fireworks display on New Year's Eve was a brightsome spectacle, illuminating the night sky with bursts of vibrant colors.”
      “The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood.”
      “This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!”
brightish
  1. Somewhat bright
  2. Examples:
      3. “When you sit down at a table you'll notice there are brightish green papers everywhere.”
      “The bright blue star on the left and another brightish blue star in the lower left corner form the horns.”
      “This eclipse is unusual because the Moon itself eclipses, or occults, a brightish star during totality!”
brighter
  1. comparative form of bright: more bright
  2. Synonyms:
      3. better, nicer, more favorable, fairer, happier, more opportune, timelier, better-timed, more agreeable, more amicable, more complimentary, more constructive, more welcoming, benigner, friendlier, kinder, kindlier, more benevolent, more commendable, more convenient, more auspicious, pleasanter, more attractive … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Belle Vue's revamped side are planning to lay down a marker for a new, brighter era by blowing a hole in Oxford's Elite League title bid.”
      “Of course, the market is not immune to the domestic economy and its recent rally is partly explained by a brighter outlook for interest rates.”
      “The screen was woollen, an open weave to let the sound through from behind, with darned patches, brighter than the yellowed screen.”
brightest
  1. superlative form of bright: most bright
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lightest, vividest, intensest, shiniest, glossiest, sheeniest, lucidest, glitteriest, splendidest, most shining, most brilliant, most dazzling, most beaming, most glaring, most glittering, most scintillating, most gleaming, most glowing, most aglow, most twinkling, most luminous, most luminescent, most radiant, most incandescent, most phosphorescent, most fluorescent, most lustrous, most polished, most irradiant, most lucent, most effulgent, most refulgent, most fulgent, most glistering, most lambent, most fulgurant, most iridescent, most candescent, littest, most lighted, most illuminated, most lit up, most ablaze, most irradiated, most lightsome, most undimmed, sunniest, clearest, fairest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I sit next to the quickest, the brightest, most well-read, most entertaining, most brilliant man.”
      “Week after week he painstakingly helped them work through problems his brightest students would grasp in an instant.”
      “Tonight and for the next week or so while the moon is waning with the brightest appearance next Tuesday night.”
brightened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of brighten
  2. Synonyms:
      3. illumined, illuminated, irradiated, lightened, gleamed, kindled, shone, shined, glowed, burnished, intensified, lit up, threw light on, thrown light on, cast light on, shed light on, lit, lighted, illumed, emblazed, beaconed, bathed, cast light upon, enlightened, flashed, belighted, belit, made brighter, shone on, flooded with light, emblazoned, floodlighted, floodlit, highlighted, cast, made lighter, brightened up, hit with a light, shed light, clarified, animated, flooded, shone upon, spotlit, spotlighted, limelit, limelighted, fired, ignited, made visible … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Wendy felt more relaxed in the now brightened room, and the soft flickering flame made the cellar more home-like.”
brightening
  1. present participle of brighten
  2. Synonyms:
      3. illumining, illuminating, irradiating, lightening, gleaming, kindling, shining, glowing, burnishing, intensifying, lighting up, throwing light on, casting light on, shedding light on, lighting, illuming, emblazing, beaconing, bathing, enlightening, flashing, belighting, making brighter, shining on, flooding with light, emblazoning, floodlighting, highlighting, making lighter, brightening up, casting light upon, shining upon, shining a light on, clarifying, casting, flooding, animating, shedding light, limelighting, spotlighting, furnishing, making bright, making visible, igniting, firing, bathing in light, hitting with a light, beaming, emanating, glittering … more
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