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brilliantadjective giving off or reflecting much lighta brilliant chandelier graces the hotel lobby beaming, bedazzling, bright, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hotagleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winkingburnished, polished, shinedsuperbright, ultrabright dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber(or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlitcloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shadygray(also grey), leaden, pale, palish having or showing quickness of minda brilliant boy who left for college at the age of 16 alert, brainy, bright, clever, exceptional, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart apt, ingenious, resourcefulacute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wisecerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-readeducated, informed, schooled, skilled, trainedcreative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wisecrafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wilylogical, rational, reasonable airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey(also dopy), dorky(slang), dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless feebleminded, simplemindedboobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, sillyignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinkingabsurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky(also whacky), zany likely to attract attentiona brilliant example of government waste arresting, bodacious, bold, catchy, commanding, conspicuous, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, grabby, kenspeckle(chiefly Scottish), marked, noisy, noticeable, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, splashy, striking detectable, discernible(also discernable), observable, perceptible, recognizable, visibleoutstanding, salientdistinguished, eminent, impressive, notable, noteworthyhighlighted, spotlightedflagrant, glaring, howling, screamingflashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, jazzy, loud, meretricious, swank(or swanky), tawdryhighfalutin(also hifalutin), ostentatious, pretentiousextravagant, fancy, florid, glittery, spectacularopulent, ornate, overdone, overwroughtabsorbing, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, interesting, riveting inconspicuous, unemphatic, unflamboyant, unnoticeable, unobtrusive, unremarkable, unshowy subtleconcealed, hidden, shroudeddim, faint, obscureinsignificant, undistinguished, unimportantmodest, unaffected, unassuming, unpretentiousconservative, plain, quiet, simple, understatedmuted, restrained, subdued, subtle, toned-down, unflashy brilliantnouna usually valuable stone cut and polished for ornamentthe diamond cutter set out an array of brilliants to show the various ways the diamond could be cut gem, gemstone, jewel, rock(slang) bauble, bijou, trinketbirthstonebaguette, cabochon, cameo, scarab, solitaire, teardroppaste, rhinestone, zirconcrown jewels, jewelry rough adj.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.radiant stresses the emission or seeming emission of rays of light.luminous implies emission of steady, suffused, glowing light by reflection or in surrounding darkness.lustrous stresses an even, rich light from a surface that reflects brightly without glittering. ca. 1681 |