brilliantadjective
uk/ˈbrɪl.jənt/us/ˈbrɪl.jənt/brilliant adjective (INTELLIGENT)
B1 extremely intelligent or skilled:
Her mother was a brilliant scientist.
He gave a brilliant performance.
The idea was quite brilliant.
She seemed to have a brilliant career ahead of her (= was likely to be extremely successful).
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Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agile
- apt
- artful
- as (if) to the manner born idiom
- brilliance
- gumption
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- ingenious
- presence of mind
- quick-witted
- razor-sharp
- ready
- resource
- resourceful
- scholarly
- sharply
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brilliant adjective (SHINING)
B1 full of light, shining, or bright in colour:
The sky was a brilliant, cloudless blue.
I was dazzled by a brilliant light.
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The qualities of light
- ablaze
- backlit
- coruscating
- flicker
- floodlit
- fluorescent
- gleaming
- glittering
- glittery
- glossy
- incandescent
- lambent
- luminescent
- lustrous
- opalescent
- polychromatic
- shine
- spangly
- sparkling
- torchlight
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brilliant adjective (VERY GOOD)
A2 UK informal very good:
"Did you like the film?" "I thought it was brilliant."
She's got a brilliant sense of humour.
Oh, brilliant! My parcel's arrived.
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- That bit at the beginning of the film was brilliant.
- He does a brilliant impersonation of Charles.
- The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
- "So how was the party last night?" "Oh, it was brilliant, - we had a ball!"
- It's not brilliant but it's worth a read.
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- sterling
- superb
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
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brilliantly
adverb uk/ˈbrɪl.jənt.li/us/ˈbrɪl.jənt.li/
B2
He seems to do everything brilliantly - piano playing, skiing, sailing.