brilliant adjective (INTELLIGENT)
extremely intelligent or skilled: Her mother was a brilliant scientist. He gave a brilliant performance. The idea was quite brilliant.
Brilliant describes something super bright, like intense lights at a football stadium, a super sparkly diamond, or the student who graduates from Harvard at age 13. Brilliant comes from the Italian word brillare, to "sparkle" like those bright lights, diamonds, and brainiac kid.
: with taste. used as a direction in music.
brilliance or brilliancy. 1 (noun) in the sense of cleverness. Definition. excellence in physical or mental ability. His brilliance and genius will always remain.
On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brilliance, such as: cleverness, excellence, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, and talent.
bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous mean shining or glowing with light. bright implies emitting or reflecting a high degree of light. brilliant implies intense often sparkling brightness.
The name Brilliant is both a boy's name and a girl's name meaning " very bright and radiant; clever or talented".
A melophile is a lover of music. Melophile dictionary definition | melophile defined.
She ate her dinner with gusto. He played the role of the villain with gusto.
Brilliance is a quality of being intensely bright or vivid. City dwellers might be surprised at the brilliance of the stars in the night sky the first time they go camping in the mountains.
► see thesaurus at goodGrammarIn this meaning, brilliant is not used with 'very'. You say: We had an absolutely brilliant time. ✗Don't say: We had a very brilliant time.
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