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Definition: BRIGHTENED |
BRIGHTENEDImperative & past participle1. Of Brighten |
Date "BRIGHTENED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Crosswords: BRIGHTENED |
| English words defined with "BRIGHTENED": brighten ♦ unenlivened. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Florence Martus, Savannah's Waving Girl This statue commemorates a lady who brightened the lives of thousands of sailors Florence waved goodbye to hundreds of ships leaving the port of Savannah. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "From dusk till dawn" by Ronald Fruin Commentary: "Amazing sunset. I have a landscape version as well, which brightened up my desktop for quite some time. If you are interested, let me know." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Suddenly she brightened up. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | In April 2001, the United States hosted further talks that brightened the outlook for a lasting settlement, but peace has yet to be achieved. (references) |
Yemen | This began to change in 2000 as the macroeconomic picture brightened, the rial stabilized, Yemen celebrated its tenth anniversary of unification, and the border dispute with Saudi Arabia was settled. (references) | |
Sweden | The Swedish economic picture has brightened significantly since the severe recession in the early 1990s. Growth has been strong in recent years and even though the economy has slackened during the first half of 2001, in the long run the prospects for growth remain favorable. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BRIGHTENED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 76.32% of the time. "BRIGHTENED" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 76.32% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 21.93% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.75% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BRIGHTENED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 发亮 (Brighten, Brightening). (various references) | |
German | aufgehellt. (various references) | |
Korean | 빛나는 (Beamed, Gleamed, Glittered, Rayed, Shined, Shinier, Shiniest, shiny, Shone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightenedbray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BRIGHTENED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brittenden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BRIGHTENED" (pronounced brī"tund) |
| 6 | -r ī" t u n d | frightened. |
| 5 | -ī" t u n d | lightened, enlightened, heightened, tightened, unenlightened. |
| 4 | -t u n d | buttoned, cottoned, destined, disheartened, fattened, flattened, heartened, predestined, shortened, straightened, sweetened, threatened, unbuttoned. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, strengthened, summoned, thickened, thousand, toughened, unburdened, undetermined, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: benighted. | |
-2 letters: beringed, berthing, breeding, brighten, interbed, rehinged. | |
-3 letters: bedight, beignet, berthed, bighted, birthed, diether, dreeing, energid, girthed, greenth, hedgier, heeding, herding, inbreed, inhered, integer, neighed, neither, rebegin, reeding, rehinge, reigned, righted, therein, treeing. | |
-4 letters: begird, begirt, behind, bender, betide, binder, binged, binger, bridge, bright, brined, denier, dieter, dinger, dither, dreigh, driegh, edgier, either. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-r-t" | |
+4 letters: bigheartedness, featherbedding. | |
+5 letters: featherbeddings, weatherboarding. | |
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