bright side

1. 1.

   a consoling aspect of a difficult situation

   “every cloud has a silver lining”

   “look on the bright side of it”

   Synonymssilver lining

   Broaderconsolation

Questions about bright side

What does bright side mean?

bright side means "a consoling aspect of a difficult situation".

What is another word for bright side?

Close synonyms include silver lining. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bright side a common word?

bright side is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.