overbright
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈbraɪt/
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deslumbrante
- They all load up and drive away, leaving me looking from the dark garage out onto the overbright harrows of sharp-cornered tract homes, and I am alone in a stranger's garage.
Examples
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Bertille Boisseneau looked up from the note she was writing, in some surprise, blinking in the dust motes that danced in the overbright light through the window, realizing how quickly, in some ways, these nineteen years had passed.
Fiction book (2000) -
The headlights were so overbright that they made it difficult for me to see the road clearly.
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The light is overbright, the water an impossible blue.
Fiction book (1994) -
His face was overbright, like a miniature sun.
Fiction book (2002) -
The room is overbright with the sun in the south windows echoing off the white vinyl floor.
Fiction book (2000) -
Nowadays, some digital cameras have a feature that causes overbright spots to blink on the LCD, which warns you immediately so that you can recompose to avoid the problem.
Academic text (2005) -
She adjusted the curtains to block the overbright sunlight streaming into the room.
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After spending time outside, I needed a moment to adjust to the overbright indoor lighting.
Synonyms
3
4.1
Very bright light that makes it hard to see
2
3.1
So bright that it is hard to see
2
4.9
Too much light or attention that makes something look bad
1
3.8
A very bright light that hurts your eyes
Very bright and giving out a lot of light
Very bright in color and showy
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overbright combines over- ('too much') and bright ('full of light'), like a sun or lamp that is too strong. So overbright means 'too bright' in a way that hurts your eyes or makes it hard to see.