brighten

Other forms of brighten

past tense

brightenned·

present participle

brightenning·

third person

brightens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brighten

What does brighten mean?

brighten means "make more cheerful through the use of color". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brighten?

brighten has 2 syllables: brigh-ten. The stress falls on "brigh". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaɪtən/.

What is another word for brighten?

Close synonyms include lighten up, lighten, clear up, clear, light up. 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.

What is the opposite of brighten?

The recorded antonyms are darken.

Is brighten a common word?

brighten is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brighten?

1 word rhymes with brighten. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.