| Main Entry: | brightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shine |
Synonyms: |
brilliance, glaze, gloss, illumination, light, luminosity, luster, shine |
Antonyms: |
darkness, dullness |
| Main Entry: | brightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
Synonyms: |
IQ, acumen, aptitude, brilliance, competence, smarts |
Antonyms: |
stupidity |
| Main Entry: | clarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
Antonyms: |
dirtiness, obscurity, unintelligiblity |
| Main Entry: | flame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fire |
Synonyms: |
blaze, brightness, conflagration, flare, flash, holocaust, light, rapid oxidation, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | freshness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | newness |
Synonyms: |
bloom, brightness, callowness, cleanness, clearness, dew, dewiness, glow, greenness, inexperience, innovativeness, inventiveness, novelty, originality, rawness, shine, sparkle, vigor, viridity, youth |
Antonyms: |
oldness, staleness |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
Synonyms: |
animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, colorfulness, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor, grins, high spirits, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, joviality, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, pleasantness, radiance, revel, reveling, revelry, shindig*, showiness, sparkle, sport, sprightliness, vivacity, whoopee, wingding |
Antonyms: |
sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | glitter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brilliance, sparkle |
Synonyms: |
beam, brightness, coruscation, display, flash, gaudiness, glamour, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitz, luster, pageantry, radiance, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, show, showiness, splendor, tinsel, twinkle, zap |
Antonyms: |
dullness |
| Main Entry: | glory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great beauty |
Synonyms: |
brightness, brilliance, effulgence, fineness, gorgeousness, grandeur, luster, magnificence, majesty, pageantry, pomp, preciousness, radiance, resplendence, richness, splendor, sublimity, sumptuousness |
Antonyms: |
ugliness |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shine, sheen |
Synonyms: |
appearance, brightness, brilliance, burnish, facade, finish, front, glaze, gleam, glint, glossiness, luster, polish, shimmer, silkiness, sleekness, slickness, surface, varnish, veneer |
Antonyms: |
dullness |
| Main Entry: | illumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light; making light |
Synonyms: |
beam, brightening, brightness, brilliance, flame, flash, gleam, lighting, lights, radiance, ray |
Antonyms: |
darkness, dimness |