brightsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim, And nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds, Than my fair Abigail should frown on me."
- "[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."
- "This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!"
- "The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood."
- "Her hair it was of a brightsome color, [...]"
- "“[...] 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.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English bright Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English brightsome From bright + -some.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more brightsome (comparative)
most brightsome (superlative)