(a.) To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
(a.) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.
(a.) To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.
(a.) To make acute or witty; to enliven.
(v. i.) To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lewinsky affair did not leave him disillusioned and Engskov's eyes brighten as he recalls his time in Washington: "It was an idealistic time.
(2) The fluorescent brightening agent, applied as a counterstain, aided in the location of the specimen.
(3) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(4) The taxidermist's eyes brightened, and he led me to a human skeleton half hidden in the back of the room.
(5) The nucleus, a huge lump of rock and ice, was several miles wide on its approach to the sun, and brightened as the sun heated it to create an atmosphere, or coma, of ice and dust which was blown away from the sun to form a tail.
(6) To assess their potential use as fluorescent stains for flow cytometry, the cell staining specificity of 55 compounds, originally synthesized for use as textile dyes and fluorescent brighteners, was explored and their excitation and emission wavebands determined.
(7) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
(8) These results suggest specific properties associated with the brightening and dimming systems.
(9) With respect to vital staining the optical brightener Blankophor RKH exhibited most favorable properties.
(10) We have so many beautiful things …” She brightens up.
(11) We attribute the brightness shift to the saturation of the transient response: a limitation on the maximum transient when responding to rapid brightening or dimming.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New Brighton, Wallasey: the New Brighteners, a self help group formed in the Wirral, have a formed a volunteer group to keep the shore and beaches clean of plastic litter.
(13) Add the chopped stems to the onions and continue cooking till they have both softened and brightened.
(14) The short-term prospects have undoubtedly brightened.
(15) A reduction in the accommodative lag during book retinoscopy would result in brightening of the reflex along with a shift in the "against" direction.
(16) Hyper-pigmentation as a manifestation of contact sensitivity to optical brighteners has previously been reported.
(17) This polarity-sensitive adaptation fits with Jung's hypothesis that separate channels signal 'brightening' and 'darkening' in the human visual system.
(18) Updated at 11.22am BST 10.45am BST Italy brightens the mood Further reaction on the Italian bond sale from Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Strategy.
(19) News that Italy had surprisingly fallen back into recession in the second quarter coupled with evidence that the faltering recovery in the eurozone was having a dampening impact on German industry contributed to a downbeat mood brightened only when shares on Wall Street rose in early trading.
(20) Instawindow … The cheap and cheerful way to brighten up your view.
Pleasant
Definition:
(a.) Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
(a.) Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
(n.) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(2) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
(3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(4) It is pleasant walking, full of character and constantly changing views.
(5) At the end of the experiment, the concentration of salt in soup rated as tasting most pleasant increased in the group which added the crystalline salt to food.
(6) Some of the choices involved will not be pleasant ones.
(7) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(8) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
(9) Nearby there is a pleasant park with tables and a barbecue.
(10) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
(11) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
(12) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
(13) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
(14) The wipes were found to be pleasant and convenient to use.
(15) I am always pleasantly amazed by how the city continues to be improved.
(16) "The reality is that we've got a situation where the Conservative party is being run almost as if it's an exclusive coterie, and it's an exclusive coterie on the left of centre of the Conservative spectrum, allied with the Liberal Democrats who are, I think, much more pleasant to associate with from their point of view," he said.
(17) Branagh, who received his fifth Oscar nomination (all, incidentally, have been in different categories) declared himself "absolutely thrilled", adding: "It was such an enjoyable experience to make, and this is a very pleasant outcome."
(18) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
(19) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
(20) The motive seemed to be removal from prison to the fairly pleasant surroundings of the local hospital.