Brightening

What do we mean by brightening?

To make bright or brighter in color.

To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to

To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven

To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up

To become brighter or more cheerful in mood

To make acute or witty; to enliven.

Words that are spelled similarly to brightening:
brightening, frightening, lightening, tightening, heightening.

Words that rhyme with brightening:
lightning, lightening, enlightening, frightening, whitening, tightening, bolt of lightning, heightening, chain lightning, heat lightning, forked lightning.

Adjectives that are often used to describe brightening:
sudden, general, little, gradual, slight, optical, momentary, rapid, daily, initial, faint, slow, perceptible, facial, transient, steady, strong, visible, temporary, mere, apparent, progressive, relative, distinct, considerable, somewhat, electrolytic, limb, final, future, quick, intense, consecutive, instant, marked, ray, noticeable, significant, light, brief, overall, eclipse, soft, simultaneous, anomalous, observed, furtive, pale, pretty, hourly, subsequent, sunbeams, burnished, alternate, eager, fluoroscopic, wonderful, solar, unearthly, worth, fair, extra, slightest, spectacular, gray, imperceptible, interrogative, pleased, dim, notable, impulsive, closed, sweet, eastern, ruby.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective brightening:
day, eye, morning, sky, light, future, prospect, moonlight, science, glow, agents, morn, eyes, quarter, wind, way, effect, sun, hope, touch, night, life, year, sunshine, edge, outlook, picture, smile, dawn, path, paleness, solution, blue, change, intellect, glory, cheek, acid, cloud, faces, sway, shadow, operations, intelligence, glance, reputation, promises, tone, moon, liquid.

Words that sound like brightening:
brightening, broadening, breitling, burdening, buttoning, battening, brighten up, brightens, frightening, brittany, brighten, brighton, brightened, britany, burgeoning, brining, brittni, brittanie, brightener, bottoming, bridling, breighton, bourgeoning, heightening, pertaining, prisoning, bryanna, brightman, brenning, burst in on, britains, britons, bretons, britain, pretending, threatening, browning, britannia, briton, brittain, breton, whitening, bryony, britton, brittan, bruning, briony, britten, bryden, broughton, brittania, brittani, britanny, brayton, bratton, bruton, branning, braining, bryton, broten, britannic, briden, brewton, bruting, brittanic, braten, bitewing, bratten, bruiting, brittanny, bruening, boening, broken in, britannique, prettying, protamine, bringing, brightness, brimming, bitumen, brittian, bradenton, brought in, brunnen, bridesman, brattiness, brian eno, broadens, bryans, burtons, broken hill, battling, beckoning, badinage, berning, beaconing, beetling, bad timing, bertini, barytone.