Adjective

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Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

*Sir (Francis Drake) (c.1540-1596)

*:The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright .

* (1800-1859)

*:The public places were as bright as at noonday.

*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

*:The sun was bright o'erhead.

Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

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*:—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.

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Vivid, colourful, brilliant.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.

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Happy, in (soplink).

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*1937 , , (The Hobbit) , Ch.11:

*:Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare.

Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Be bright and jovial among your guests.

Illustrious; glorious.

*(Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)

*:the brightest annals of a female reign

Clear; transparent.

*(James Thomson) (1700-1748)

*:From the brightest wines / He'd turn abhorrent.

(lb) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.

*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

*:with brighter evidence, and with surer success

Adjective

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(label) Unconstrained.

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# Not imprisoned or enslaved.

# Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative.

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He was free only with a few.

# Generous; liberal.

# (label) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free .

# Without obligations.

# Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?

# Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.

# (label) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

# (label) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.

Obtainable without any payment.

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# Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.

(label) Unconstrained.

# (label) Unconstrained by relators.

# Unconstrained by quantifiers.

# (label) Of identifiers, not bound.

# That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.

(label) Unconstrained.

# Unobstructed, without blockages.

# Unattached or uncombined.

# Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.

# Not attached; loose.

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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

* (w) (1635?-1715)

princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties

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(label) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

(label) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of .

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.

Certain or honourable; the opposite of base .

(Burrill)

(label) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common .

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