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Definition: Brightly |
BrightlyAdverb1. With brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brightly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: BrightlySynonyms: bright (adv), brilliantly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brightly |
| Specialty definitions using "brightly": Adjective or Adverb ♦ dark ground ♦ EMITTANCE ♦ Fagot ♦ knicker-bockers ♦ lamé ♦ multiple fuse-igniter cartridge. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "brightly": Sheenly. (references) |
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Screenplays | The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher) Shines brightly in the night sky. (That's My Bush!; writing credit: Alon Kaplan) But there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit a Darkside (Tales from the Darkside; writing credit: Franco Amurri; Clive Barker) | |
Lyrics | Flaming flowers that brightly blaze (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean) The sunlight brightly gleams (EPITAPH; performing artist: King Crimson) And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky, (Truly Madly Deeply; performing artist: Savage Garden) | |
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 | A breakfast is set up on a blue and white striped tablecloth, including: a yellow bowl of cereal with raspberries, a glass of orange juice and a glass mug of tea. Also on the table are a brightly colored napkin and silverware in the foreground and a folded newspaper in the background. A second slide shows the same objects from a different angle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Mummichogs, Fundulus heteroclitus, are year-round residents of salt marshes and can tolerate a wide range of temperatures and salinities. Two brightly colored males (top and bottom) are featured with a duller-colored female (middle) in this picture. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | ... functional façades bristle with bamboo rods hung with brightly coloured clean linen. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Takahara.. |  | He looked across at her brightly. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Making the sparks fly. The welding machine glows brightly as a worker in an eastern arsenal attacks a fabricated structure for the 90 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The inauguration of Gen. Zachary Taylor--Dedicated to the Various Rough and Ready Clubs throughout the Union / Drawn on the spot by Wm. Croome ; Engraved by Brightly & Keyser. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sunset clouds 2" by Linda W Commentary: "Clouds lit up brightly by the sunset!." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | ) The moon lighted up this square brightly. |
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Health | Males are more brightly colored than females. (references) | |
Use soft lighting, quiet music, brightly colored table settings, or whatever helps you feel good while eating. (references) | ||
Economic History | Panama | Brightly colored national dress is worn during local festivals and the pre-Lenten carnival season, especially for traditional folk dances like the tamborito. (references) |
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| "Brightly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Brightly" is used about 491 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 91.67% | 451 | 12,908 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.33% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Total | 100.00% | 491 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "brightly" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Brightly | Last name | 170 | 41,241 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "brightly": brightly colored ♦ brightly coloured ♦ shine brightly. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "brightly": brightly-anoraked, brightly-coloured, brightly-dressed, brightly-lit, brightly-marked, brightly-painted, brightly-polished, brightly-shining. | |
Ending with "brightly": over-brightly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brightly colored lizard | 12 |
brightly colored songbird | 7 |
apple brightly colored | 3 |
beetle brightly colored | 2 |
brightly | 2 |
beam brightly father mercy our | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "brightly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me shkëlqim (glaringly, glossy, lustrous, richly, shining, shiny, sleek). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бляскаво. (various references) | |
Chinese | 明亮地. (various references) | |
Czech | zářivì, jasnì (clear, clearly, plainly, quite so), chytře. (various references) | |
German | strahlend (beaming, beamy, bright, brillant, brilliant, brilliantly, gay, glorious, irradiant, irradiantly, jubilant, lustrously, radiant, radiating, radioactive, refulgent, refulgently, resplendent, shining), stark (a lot, able, bad, badly, bright, broad, considerable, forceful, great, greatly, grossly, hard, hearty, heavily, heavy, high-powered, intense, keen, keenly, large, loud, marked, mighty, potent, potently, powerful, profound, profuse, profusely, racily, racy, really well, robust, severe, severely, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, substantial, thick, tough, vehement, very, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivid, wild), schlau (artful, astute, canny, clever, cleverly, crafty, cunning, cunningly, cute, foxy, leery, neat, neatly, nifty, sharp, shifty, shrewd, shrewdly, slily, sly, slyly, smart, smartly, sneaky, vulpine, vulpinely, wily, wise), schön (absolute, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, comely, easily, enjoyable, fair, fine, finely, good enough, goodly, great, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking, nicely, precious, pretty, pulchritudinous, really, smoothly, splendid, well), intelligent (bright, intelligent, intelligently, intenationale Bediener, international operator, sagacious, smart), helle (brainy, bright, clever), hell (blond, bright, brilliantly, broad, clear, fair, flaming, great, high pitched, intelligent, light, light-colored, lucid, pale, pure, ringing, sheer, smart, stark, utter, vivid), heiter (alacritous, amusing, blithe, bright, buoyant, buoyantly, carefree, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, clear, fair, fine, funny, gay, gayly, genially, glad, happily, happy, humorous, humorously, jocund, jovial, jovially, lighthearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, mirthfully, sanguine, serene, sunny, tranquil, untroubled), fröhlich (blithe, blithesome, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheerily, festive, gay, gladly, gladsome, gleeful, happily, happy, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, jovially, joyous, lighthearted, liltingly, merrily, merry, mirthful, mirthfully, upbeat). (various references) | |
Greek | ζωηρά (vivace, vividly), λαμπρά, λαμπερά. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fényesen (agleam, glossily, sleekly), ragyogóan (brilliantly, glaringly, gorgeously). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 煌煌と (brilliantly), 煌々と (brilliantly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こうこうと (brilliantly). (various references) | |
Korean | 밝게. (various references) | |
Manx | dy sollys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightlybray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | brilhantemente (brilliantly), de modo vivo. (various references) | |
Russian | ярко (bedizen, gaily, glaringly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vedro (bucket, pail). (various references) | |
Spanish | brillantemente (bright, radiantly), claramente (apparently, clear, clearly, plain, plainly, sharply, transparently), alegremente (airily, cheerfully, cheerily, gaily, gladly, happily, joyfully, lightly, lively, luckily, merrily, pertly, playfully). (various references) | |
Swedish | ljust (clear). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), aydınlık (air shaft, airway, bright, clear, daylight, enlightenment, high speed, illumination, light, light-well, luminous, radiance, skylight, sunlit, sunny), ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, alight, ardent, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | яскраво (aglow, bright, gaily), ясно (clear, clearly, evidently, explicitly, fair, finely, neatly, obviously, plain, roger, serenely), райдужно, блискуче (bright, sensationally). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sáng ngời; rực rỡ, sáng chói tươi sáng sủa; rạng rỡ (bright). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | clare, clarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 12, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh sphlaion uainhV h klhronomia mou emoi h sphlaion kuklw authV badisate sunagagete panta ta qhria tou agrou kai elqetwsan tou fagein authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Numquid avis discolor hereditas mea mihi numquid avis tincta per totum venite congregamini omnes bestiae terrae properate ad devorandum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether a brid of dyuers coloures myn eritage to me? whether a brid died thury out? Cometh, beth gedered, alle yee bestes of the erthe; `haste yee to deuouren. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | My heritage is to me as a speckled bird, the birds around are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction. |
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| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 12, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Ang akong panulondon nahimo ba nga ingon sa balakiking langgam nga tukbonon? nanaglibut ba batok kaniya ang mga langgam nga mananagit? panlakaw kamo, tiguma ang tanang kamananapan sa kapatagan, ipalamoy sila. |
| Croatian | Zar je baština moja šarena ptica oko koje odasvud druge slijeæu? Hajde, skupite se, sve divlje zvijeri, doðite žderati. |
| Danish | Er min Arvelod blevet mig en spraglet Fugl, omgivet af Fugle? Lad alle de vilde Dyr samles, hent dem hid for af æde! |
| Dutch | Mijn erfenis is Mij een gesprenkelde vogel; de vogelen zijn rondom tegen haar; komt aan, verzamelt, al gij gedierte des velds, komt om te eten! |
| Finnish | Onko minun perintöosani kirjava petolintu, jonka ympärillä on petolintuja? Menkää, kootkaa kaikki metsän eläimet, tuokaa ne ruualle. |
| French | Mon héritage a été pour moi un oiseau de proie, une hyène; Aussi les oiseaux de proie viendront de tous côtés contre lui. Allez, rassemblez tous les animaux des champs, Faites-les venir pour qu`ils le dévorent! |
| German | Mein Erbe ist wie der sprenklige Vogel, um welchen sich die Vögel sammeln. Wohlauf, sammelt euch, alle Feldtiere, kommt und fresset. |
| Haitian Creole | Pèp ki te rele m' pa m' lan tankou yon zwazo tout koulè, malfini sènen l' toupatou. Ale non! Sanble tout bèt nan bwa. Fè yo vini pran pa yo nan manje a! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka seperti burung yang diserang oleh elang dari segala pihak. Panggillah segala binatang hutan untuk turut menghabiskan mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa bahagian-Ku pusaka itu bagi-Ku seperti harimau kumbang! Marilah, hai segala margasatwa! mengelilingi akan dia, berkerumunlah, hai segala binatang buas yang di padang, datanglah makan. |
| Italian | La mia eredità è forse per me come un uccello screziato? Gli uccelli rapaci l'assalgono da ogni parte. Venite, radunatevi, voi tutte bestie selvatiche, venite a divorare. |
| Maori | Ko toku kainga tupu, ki ahau he rite ki te manu kotingotingo; hei hoariri mona nga manu i tetahi taha, i tetahi taha. Haere mai koutou, huihuia mai nga kirehe katoa o te parae, mauria mai ki te horo kai. |
| Norwegian | Er min arv en spraglet rovfugl? Det er jo rovfugler rundt omkring den! Gå avsted og samle alle markens dyr, la dem komme hit og ete! |
| Portuguese | Acaso é para mim a minha herança como uma ave de rapina de varias cores? Andam as aves de rapina contra ela em redor? Ide, pois, ajuntai a todos os animais do campo, trazei-os para a devorarem. |
| Rumanian | A ajuns oare mowtenirea Mea pentru Mine o pasqre de pradq pestriyq, kn jurul cqreia se strkng pqsqrile de pradq?`` ,,Duceyi-vq, wi strkngeyi toate fiarele ckmpului, wi aduceyi-le ca s`o mqnknce!`` |
| Spanish | ¿Es para mí mi heredad como una ave de rapiña pintada, contra la cual están alrededor otras aves de rapiña? Id, reunid a todos los animales del campo; sean traídos para que la devoren. |
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Misspellings | |
"Brightly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brechtlien, brittly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brightly" (pronounced brī"tlē) |
| 5 | -r ī" t l ē | forthrightly, rightly, sprightly. |
| 4 | -ī" t l ē | knightly, lightly, nightly, politely, slightly, tightly, unsightly, Whitely. |
| 3 | -t l ē | abruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, accurately, acutely, adamantly, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, apparently, appropriately, approximately, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brilliantly, coherently, commensurately, compassionately, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, jointly, justly, lastly, lately, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, fortnightly, fortunately, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, implicitly, importantly, imprudently, inaccurately, inadequately, inadvertently, inappropriately, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, indefinitely, independently, indignantly, indirectly, indiscriminately, inefficiently, ineptly, infinitely, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, inordinately, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, intimately, intricately, legitimately, leniently, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, passionately, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, privately, prominently, promptly, proportionately, prudently, pungently, quaintly, quietly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, robustly, saintly, secretly, separately, shortly, significantly, silently, smartly, softly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, transparently, triumphantly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unpleasantly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-l-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: blighty, rightly. | |
-2 letters: blight, bright, righty, trigly, trilby. | |
-3 letters: bight, bigly, bilgy, birth, girly, girth, grith, light, right, thirl, yirth. | |
-4 letters: birl, brig, brit, byrl, gilt, girl, girt, glib, grit, gyri, hilt, thir, tirl, trig. | |
-5 letters: big, bit, ghi, gib, git, hit, lib, lit, rib, rig, thy, til, try. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-l-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: bigheartedly. | |
+5 letters: copyrightable, thyroglobulin. | |
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