What is the difference between dark and bright?

Bright is a antonym of dark.

As adjectives the difference between dark and bright

is that dark is having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light while bright is visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.

As nouns the difference between dark and bright

is that dark is a complete or (more often) partial absence of light while bright is an artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.

As a proper noun Bright is

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dark

English

Adjective

(er)

Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}

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#Deprived of sight; blind.

#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

#*:He was, I think, at this time quite dark , and so had been for some years.

(lb) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.

*: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.

*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

Hidden, secret, obscure.

*1603-1606 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , i 1

*:Meantime we shall express our darker purpose

#Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?

#*1594- , (Richard Hooker),

#*:What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.

#*(w) (1819-1885)

#*:the dark problems of existence

# Having racing capability not widely known.

Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Left him at large to his own dark designs.

Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.

* (1800-1859)

*:A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.

*(Washington Irving) (1783-1859)

*:There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.

*Sir (1614-1669)

*:The age wherein he lived was dark , but he / Could not want light who taught the world to see.

*(Arthur Hallam) (1811-1833)

*:The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.

With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.

Synonyms

* (relative lack of light) dim, gloomy, see also * (sinister or secret) hidden, secret, sinister, see also * (without morals) malign, sinister, see also * (of colour) deep, see also * (conducive to hopelessness) hopeless, negative, pessimistic * (lacking progress) unenlightened

Antonyms

* (relative lack of light) bright, light, lit * (of colour) bright, light, pale

Derived terms

* dark energy * dark flow * dark-haired * dark horse * dark matter * dark-skinned

Noun

(en-noun)

A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.

* Shakespeare

Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

(uncountable) Ignorance.

* Shakespeare

Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark .

* John Locke

Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark , and as void of knowledge, as before.

(uncountable) Nightfall.

A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

* Dryden

The lights may serve for a repose to the darks', and the ' darks to the lights.

Derived terms

* after dark * all cats are gray in the dark * at dark * bedarken * before dark * Dark Ages * dark blue * dark brown * dark chocolate * dark comedy * Dark Continent * dark current * dark elves * darken * dark energy * darkey * dark fiber * darkfield * dark field * dark figure * darkful * dark glasses * dark horse * dark house * darkish * dark lantern * darkle * dark matter * dark meat * dark nebula * darkness * dark reaction * dark red * darkroom * dark-room * dark room * dark-skinned * dark side * darksome * dark space * dark star * darky * endark * oh dark thirty * pitch-dark * shot in the dark * whistle in the dark

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bright

English

Adjective

(er)

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

*: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.

* Episode 16

*:—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.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

Vivid, colourful, brilliant.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

Happy, in (soplink).

*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

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* * brighten * bright-eyed * bright-eyed and bushy-tailed * brightness * bright side * bright young thing * brightwork * eyebright

Noun

(en noun)

An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.

(obsolete) splendour; brightness

* Milton

Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.

(neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.

* {{quote-news, date = 2003-06-20

, title = The future looks bright , first = Richard , last = Dawkins , authorlink = Richard Dawkins , newspaper = (The Guardian) , issn = 0261-3077 , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins , passage = Brights' constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are ' brights . }}

* {{quote-book, date = 2006-02-02

, title = Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon , first = Daniel C. , last = Dennett , authorlink = Daniel C. Dennett , location = New York , publisher = Viking , isbn = 9780670034727 , ol = 3421576M , page = 27 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC&pg=PA27&dq=brights , passage = Many of us brights' have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many ' brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory. }}

* {{quote-book, date = 2008-03-17

, title = The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness , first = David , last = Aikman , location = Carol Stream , publisher = Tyndale House Publishers , isbn = 9781414317083 , ol = 24967138M , page = 28 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=zn6XkS-4BJcC&pg=PA28&dq=brights , passage = Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights , the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly. }}

Antonyms

* (non-supernaturalist) (neologism) super, supernaturalist

Hyponyms

* (non-supernaturalist) atheist

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