Bright Side

Definition: Bright Side

Bright Side

Noun

1. A consoling aspect of a difficult situation; "every cloud has a silver lining"; "look on the bright side of it".

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Synonym: Bright Side

Cheerfulness

Verb: be cheerful; Adjective: have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away, perk up.

Hope

Be hopeful; Adjective: look on the bright side of, view on the sunny side, voir en couleur de rose, make the best of it, hope for the best; put a good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face upon; keep one's spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of good heart, be of good cheer; flatter oneself, "lay the flattering unction to one's soul"

Pain

Loveliness; (beauty); sunny side, bright side; sweets; (sugar); goodness; manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.

Crosswords: Bright Side

But there's a bright side to this, and a moral. (Blue Thunder; writing credit: Don Jakoby; Dan O'Bannon)

Well, I gotta look on the bright side. Maybe I can still get kicked out of school! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Well honey, look on the bright side. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Laken, I know I raised you to be cheerful and always look on the bright side of things, but forget about all that right now because this is a time of crisis! (Santa Barbara; writing credit: Meg Bennett; Bettina F. Bradbury)

Hey, look on the bright side - now you don't have to deal with that Confed promotion that finally came through! (Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom; writing credit: Terry Borst; Frank De Palma)

No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown)

No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown)

Looking on the Bright Side (1932)

The Bright Side (1985)

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Books

• On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (reference)

• You Know Your Child Is Gifted When...: A Beginner's Guide to Life on the Bright Side (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bright side": look at the bright side ♦ look on the bright side of ♦ to look on the bright side. Additional references.

Finnish

valopuoli. (various references)

Hungarian

dolgok jó oldala (bright side of things), dolgok előnyös oldala (bright side of things), dolgok derűs oldala (bright side of things). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightbray idesay

Portuguese

ver as coisas pelo melhor ângulo (look at the bright side). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bedights, disherit, ridgiest, righties, tigerish.

-3 letters: bedight, begirds, bestrid, bhistie, bighted, birdies, birthed, bistred, bridges, brights, dirties, dishier, dithers, ditsier, girthed, resight, righted, sighted, sighter, tidiers, tigrish.

-4 letters: bedsit, begird, begirt, berths, bestir, biders, bidets, bights, birdie, births, bister, bistre, biters, brides, bridge, bright, debits, debris, digest, dights, digits, direst, dirges, dither, dreigh.