🇬🇧🇪🇸 brightness - brillo : English Lesson

Meaning of "brightness" ("brillo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Brightness is the amount of light that something produces or reflects. The sun has a lot of brightness, a flashlight can be bright or dim, and your phone screen can be so bright at night that it blinds you! Brightness can also describe how shiny or colorful something looks.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I asked Dad to dim the brightness of my ceiling light—he just handed me sunglasses.

The sun’s brightness made me regret not bringing sunglasses—and now I’m walking into walls.

I woke up, opened the curtains, and the brightness outside made me hiss like a vampire.

The brightness of my cousin’s neon shirt makes it impossible to lose him in a crowd.

The brightness of my little brother’s smile after he stole my last cookie should be illegal.

She lifted the blind; brightness spilled across the wooden floor. Brightness touched the sleeping boy’s cheek and brightness warmed the thin blanket. Brightness chased the night's shadows out of the room. Brightness made the old clock gleam, and brightness made them both sit up laughing, blinking into the sudden, gentle day.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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