Difference between Bright and Brightly

What is the difference between Bright and Brightly?

Bright as an adjective is visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark. while Brightly as an adverb is in a bright manner.

Bright

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark. Intelligent, brilliant. Vivid, colourful, brilliant. Happy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An artists brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head. A neologism intended as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various kinds of non-religious and non-superstitious people. (There is a Wikipedia article on this usage.)

Example sentence: The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Brightly

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: In a bright manner.

Example sentence: It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

We hope you now know whether to use Bright or Brightly in your sentence.

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