Definition of briliant
1. brilliant [ a ] of surpassing excellence
Examples:
"a brilliant performance"
"a superb actor"
(The Dallas Morning News,...)
Tailback James_Saxton already has surpassed his rushing total for his brilliant sophomore season , when he netted 271 yards on 55 carries ; he now has 273 yards in 22 tries during three games .
(Chicago Daily Tribune...)
It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel_de_Cervantes ' `` Don_Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle , done in wide_screen and color , which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth_Street and Sixty-eighth_Street_Playhouses .
Synonyms brilliant superb Related Terms superior2. brilliant [ a ] having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence
Examples:
"some men dislike brainy women"
"a brilliant mind"
"a brilliant solution to the problem"
(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)
If the change , at_first_sight , seems minor , we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change , and the Italian painters , by universal consent , were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen .
(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)
Indeed , it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ_Church and Regius_Professor of Ecclesiastical History , who fathered this most peculiar view , and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance_English at Cambridge , who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent .
(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)
Now , under the impact of his wife 's disclosures , he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance , however brilliant , however far-famed the offender might be .
Synonyms brilliant smart_as_a_whip brainy Related Terms intelligent3. brilliant [ a ] full of light; shining intensely
Examples:
"a brilliant star"
"brilliant chandeliers"
(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)
The autofluorescence from the walls of the xylem cells was particularly brilliant .
Synonyms brilliant Related Terms bright4. brilliant [ a ] having striking color
Examples:
"bright greens"
"brilliant tapestries"
"a bird with vivid plumage"
5. brilliant [ a ] characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur
Examples:
"the brilliant court life at Versailles"
"a glorious work of art"
"magnificent cathedrals"
"the splendid coronation ceremony"
(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)
in his motherland ; in the spacious hunting_grounds of `` Uncle_Sam '' ; in the exciting salons of his lovely , brilliant Paris - mistress of gaiety - excess and abandon - world theatre of new found freedoms in tone , color , dance , design , and thought .
Synonyms magnificent brilliant splendid glorious Related Terms impressive6. brilliant [ a ] clear and sharp and ringing
Examples:
"the bright sound of the trumpet section"
"the brilliant sound of the trumpets"
(The Christian Science Monitor,...)
The penalty for this is noticeable in the big , bold , brilliant , but brassy piano sounds in Melody_and_Percussion_for_Two_Pianos ( SP 44007 ) .
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