- 5. Auspicious, cheering, promising, propitious, encouraging, favorable, enlivening, inspiriting, exhilarating,
inspiring.
- 6. Merry, lively, cheerful, cheery, happy, sprightly, genial, smiling, pleasant, animated, vivacious.
Bright, n. Brightness, light, splendor, effulgence, sheen, radiance, lustre, luminosity, luminousness.
Brighten, v. a.
- 1. Polish, burnish, furbish, make bright, illuminate, illumine, illume, irradiate.
- 2. Make cheerful, make joyous, cheer, animate, enliven, encourage, hearten, exhilarate, inspirit, inspire.
Brighten, v. n. Grow bright or brighter, clear, clear up, improve, grow better, become more encouraging.