Thesaurus Tree — Design Sample 271

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Synonym tree for “bright”

bright

/brʌɪt/ · adj.

Light

Mind

Colour

Cheer

Outlook

Below the canopy

The root system

Every branch above grows from the same buried stem. Read this stratum by stratum, newest soil first — the word narrows as it descends, from a whole family of shining things to a single Proto-Indo-European gleam.

c. 1300 → now

bright Middle English · shining, clear, then clever by 1741 brightness derived noun, c. 1200

Old English

beorht shining, splendid, glorious berht Northumbrian variant

Proto-Germanic

*berhtaz bright, radiant Gothic bairhts manifest, evident Old High German beraht

Proto-Indo-European

*bhereg- to shine, to be white Sanskrit bhrajate it shines Lithuanian brėkšta it dawns