brilliant
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brilliant, top and side view: 1 table, 2 bezel, 3 girdle, 4 pavilion, 5 culet
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Synonyms & Antonyms for brilliant
Synonyms: Adjective
beaming, bedazzling, bright, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid
Synonyms: Noun
gem, gemstone, jewel, rock [slang]
Antonyms: Adjective
dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant
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Examples of brilliant in a Sentence
Adjective
a brilliant star in the sky a store decorated in brilliant colors He pitched a brilliant game. She gave a brilliant performance. She has a brilliant mind.Noun
the diamond cutter set out an array of brilliants to show the various ways the diamond could be cut
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Boylan, herself a brilliant neurologist, disagreed vehemently with them. — David Armstrong, ProPublica, "In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria.," 23 Aug. 2019 The cast — mostly trans women of color — is also brilliant. — Gabi Thorne, Allure, "Pose Makeup Artist Sherri Laurence Chats With Us About Season Two," 20 Aug. 2019 Still, there is humankind, wonderful, brilliant, heroic, tragic—as Hamlet says, how like a god. — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, "Is Poverty Necessary?," 10 June 2019 Manchester United were brilliant on the break against Chelsea, scoring from four of their five shots on target. — SI.com, "90min's Definitive European Power Rankings: Week 1," 16 Aug. 2019 There's no road trip that's as brilliant as that road trip. — Condé Nast Traveler, "Author E. Jean Carroll on Her Feminist Road Trip Across America: Women Who Travel Podcast," 13 Aug. 2019 The company is adept at making brilliant investments, streamlining operations and boosting profits. — Christopher Leonard, ProPublica, "Rising Profits, Rising Injuries: The Safety Crisis at Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific," 8 Aug. 2019 The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted off at 6:13 a.m. Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center and quickly cut through Florida’s black sky in a brilliant display of light-blue luminescence. — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, "’I just saw the weirdest thing,’ spectators across Florida marvel, tweet about ULA Atlas V rocket launch," 8 Aug. 2019 His death at age 52 from yet-unsaid causes means the loss of a brilliant, distinct chronicler of the world, and he’ll be remembered in quotations: lines that make no sense, that describe the impossible, and that yet identify so much truth. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "David Berman Sang the Truth," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brilliant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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