"brightsome" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bright",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "bright + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bright + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more brightsome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most brightsome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brightsome (comparative more brightsome, superlative most brightsome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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        }
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "brightsomeness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act II:",
          "text": "But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim,\nAnd nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds,\nThan my fair Abigail should frown on me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 45, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:",
          "text": "[A]ll the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Wood Fire”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier:",
          "text": "This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Paul S. Sunga, Red Dust, Red Sky, →ISBN, page 117:",
          "text": "The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, William Bay, Fun with Strums Mandolin:",
          "text": "Her hair it was of a brightsome color, [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric:",
          "text": "“[...] this point, characteristically, the speaker writes himself into the relation: his dull skin requires the “brightsome Colours” of Joseph's coat but more especially of Christ's blood and glory.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining."
      ],
      "id": "en-brightsome-en-adj-4CFVqbd0",
      "links": [
        [
          "brightness",
          "brightness"
        ],
        [
          "brilliance",
          "brilliance"
        ],
        [
          "resplendent",
          "resplendent"
        ],
        [
          "shining",
          "shining"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "brilliant"
        },
        {
          "word": "luminous"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brightsome"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "brightsomeness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bright",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "bright + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bright + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more brightsome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most brightsome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brightsome (comparative more brightsome, superlative most brightsome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -some",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act II:",
          "text": "But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim,\nAnd nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds,\nThan my fair Abigail should frown on me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 45, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:",
          "text": "[A]ll the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Wood Fire”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier:",
          "text": "This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Paul S. Sunga, Red Dust, Red Sky, →ISBN, page 117:",
          "text": "The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, William Bay, Fun with Strums Mandolin:",
          "text": "Her hair it was of a brightsome color, [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric:",
          "text": "“[...] this point, characteristically, the speaker writes himself into the relation: his dull skin requires the “brightsome Colours” of Joseph's coat but more especially of Christ's blood and glory.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brightness",
          "brightness"
        ],
        [
          "brilliance",
          "brilliance"
        ],
        [
          "resplendent",
          "resplendent"
        ],
        [
          "shining",
          "shining"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "brilliant"
    },
    {
      "word": "luminous"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brightsome"
}