Definitions for brights

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brights bright

Spelling: [brahyt]

IPA: /braɪt/

Brights is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in brights (bghirst).

Definitions for brights

noun

1. brights. the automobile or truck headlights used for driving at night or under conditions of decreased visibility. the brighter level of intensity of these lights, usually deflected upward by switching on a bulb in the headlamp that strikes the lens at a different angle.
2. flue-cured, light-hued tobacco.
3. an artist's paintbrush having short, square-edged bristles.
4. Archaic. brightness; splendor.

adverb

1. in a bright manner; brightly.

adjective

1. radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining:
2. filled with light:
3. vivid or brilliant:
4. quick-witted or intelligent:
5. clever or witty, as a remark:
6. animated; lively; cheerful:
7. characterized by happiness or gladness:
8. favorable or auspicious:
9. radiant or splendid:
10. illustrious or glorious, as an era:
11. clear or translucent, as liquid:
12. having a glossy, glazed, or polished finish.
13. intensely clear and vibrant in tone or quality; clear and sharp in sound:

Origin of brights

before 1000; Middle English; Old English breht, beorht; cognate with Gothic bairht(s), Old Saxon ber(a)ht, Old High German beraht, Old Norse bjartr; Welsh berth splendid (*berkto-); akin to L

Examples for brights

She had been called away from her "brights," and there was a mournful relish of Jackie's plight on her face.

He had left the brights' party fully intending to run out to Sombari, but had been diverted; and now it was too late.

He dare not touch a drop because he has brights disease in the last stages.

These changes were so marked as to justify a diagnosis of incipient nephritis, or brights disease.

On leaving the brights' dinner-party, Captain Dalton made his way to his car and sped out upon the moonlit road.

They lasted in Mr. brights case till his death, and there was between him and Mr. Field something which might be called affection.

Professor Christison also claims that three-fourths, or even four-fifths, of brights disease in Scotland is produced by alcohol.

So the dinner-party at the brights' was a settled engagement and Joyce prepared to keep it.

At the brights', only Honor was at home, her mother having driven to the bazaar for muslin to make new curtains.

She decided that the brights would have to do without her, and forgive the disappointment.