bright blue eyes

[englishhobby]

I've often come across descriptions like "bright blue/green eyes". The word 'bright' can mean both 'sparkling' and 'intelligent'. What is the first meaning that comes to the mind of a native speaker? E.g. He had black hair, and bright green eyes.

 

[GoesStation]

Only the color. It isn't sparkling though. It's highly luminous.

 

[Barb_D]

My children both have blue eyes. The older one's are bright blue - like the sky. The younger one's are dark blue - like the color of a denim jacket. If you put a comma between "bright" and "blue" I might think you were referring to something else, like an indication of intelligence or a sense of humor.

 

[englishhobby]

My children both have blue eyes. The older one's are bright blue - like the sky. The younger one's are dark blue - like the color of a denim jacket.

Barb_D, as far as I understand, your younger child's eyes are light blue. Does 'light" mean the same as 'bright' in the given context? Or does 'bright blue' describe a 'stronger' colour than 'light blue'?

 

[GoesStation]

Barb_D, as far as I understand, your younger child's eyes are light blue. Does 'light" mean the same as 'bright' in the given context? Or is 'bright blue' more intensive than 'light blue'?

Barb said that her younger child's eyes are dark​ blue, "the color of a [new] denim jacket". She didn't include the word "new" but that's the color she described, a different color from light blue.

Light blue is the color of a hazy but cloudless sky.

 

[Barb_D]

My old 1980s heartthrob, Parker Stevenson

Mel Gibson
John Travolta

They all have bright blue eyes.