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adv. with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright"

adj. characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"

adj. characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"

bright, brilliant

adj. clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"

bright, shiny, sunshiny

adj. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining morning"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny"

precocious

adj. characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"

astute, sharp, shrewd

adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

perspicacious, sagacious, sapient

adj. acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"

crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily

adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

talented, gifted

adj. endowed with talent or talents; "a gifted writer"

resourceful

adj. having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town"

witty

adj. combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"

imaginative, inventive

adj. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"

beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent

adj. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"

pleasant

adj. affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

ablaze(p), inflamed, reddened

adj. lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"

candescent

adj. glowing from great heat

floodlit, floodlighted

adj. illuminated by means of floodlights; "the floodlit courtyard"

luminescent

adj. emitting light not caused by heat

illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted

adj. provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"

lamplit

adj. lighted by a lamp; "our lamplit mountain retreat"

lighting-up(a)

adj. turning lights on; "it's lighting-up time"

livid

adj. furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

phosphorescent

adj. emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous; "the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood"

sunlit, sunstruck

adj. lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner

white

adj. of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"

agile, nimble

adj. mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

quick-witted

adj. mentally nimble and resourceful; "quick-witted debater"; "saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"

apprehensive, discerning, perceptive

adj. quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

quick, ready

adj. apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"

brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip

adj. having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"

prehensile

adj. having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

searching, trenchant

adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)

adj. endowed with the capacity to reason

scintillating

adj. brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"

changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot

adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"

deep, rich

adj. strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"

flaming

adj. resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves"

fluorescent

adj. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light; "fluorescent colors"

prismatic

adj. exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism; "prismatic light"

psychedelic

adj. having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states; "a psychedelic painting"

red, empurpled, ruddy, flushed

adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

clear

adj. free from flaw or blemish or impurity; "a clear perfect diamond"; "the clear complexion of a healthy young woman"

unclouded

adj. not made opaque or cloudy by sediment; "the wine was unclouded"

serene

adj. completely clear and fine; "serene skies and a bright blue sea"

cloudy

adj. full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"

dull, leaden

adj. darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

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