Word Finder - brilliant

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A finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, cut in a particular form with numerous facets so as to maximize light return through the top (called "table") of the stone.

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The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.

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Most hummingbird species of the genus Heliodoxa.

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A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.

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Shining brightly.

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the brilliant lights along the promenade

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(of a colour) Both bright and saturated.

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butterflies with brilliant blue wings

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(of a voice or sound) Having a sharp, clear tone

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Of surpassing excellence.

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The actor's performance in the play was simply brilliant.

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Magnificent or wonderful.

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Highly intelligent.

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She is a brilliant scientist.

The stars were brilliant this evening.

Dawn came slowly, followed by the brilliant blue sky of morning.

You're perfect, brilliant, and beautiful.

A brilliant flash of lightning made the furniture in their bedroom stand out in relief.

Nishani was not only brilliant, but she was fast in her work.

Down the hall, the living room was lit up constantly with brilliant flashes of lightning.

The mother is a physician and a brilliant woman, he says.

When the children saw the trees all aglow with brilliant colors they clapped their hands and shouted for joy, and immediately began to pick great bunches to take home.

Another brilliant bolt of lightning ended in a deafening clap of thunder.

Pierre was just the husband needed for a brilliant society woman.

You are a brilliant artist.

She was brilliant, loyal, and sweet.

She'd seen how brilliant A'Ran's battles were.

My father started out with nothing but a brilliant mind, like yours.

All was blended into one brilliant procession.

The sun was brilliant, the pinks and oranges – combined with the multiple shades of blue sky as it lightened – creating a vision beyond that of any dream.

They have lost their value, except for the few matters of fact embedded in a mass of commonplace meditation, and for some occasionally brilliant illustrations.

She was so pleased by praise from this brilliant beauty that she blushed with pleasure.

A flood of brilliant, joyful light poured from her transfigured face.

Now I have another dazzling thought, bred from my brilliant research.

As a diplomatist he displayed many brilliant qualities - adroitness in negotiation, incisiveness in argument and elegance in style.

Henceforth his name was known in all European countries; the English translation by Mrs Austin was the occasion of one of Macaulay's most brilliant essays.

Taking Varro for his model, Fenestella was one of the chief representatives of the new style of historical writing which, in the place of the brilliant descriptive pictures of Livy, discussed curious and out-of-the-way incidents and customs of political and social life, including literary history.

Everywhere you work, you're recognized for being the brilliant person I know you are.

Though some skeptics smiled when told of Berg's merits, it could not be denied that he was a painstaking and brave officer, on excellent terms with his superiors, and a moral young man with a brilliant career before him and an assured position in society.

In the plains below, the swards are gay with the scarlet and white verbena and other brilliant wild flowers.

He had not ridden many hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and across his path.

In the first place the marriage was not a brilliant one as regards birth, wealth, or rank.

The music sounded louder and through the door rows of brightly lit boxes in which ladies sat with bare arms and shoulders, and noisy stalls brilliant with uniforms, glittered before their eyes.

Natasha, smoothing her gown, went in with Sonya and sat down, scanning the brilliant tiers of boxes opposite.

In demeanour he was quiet, reserved and tactful, but when occasion called for it he proved himself a brilliant orator.

She was a schoolmistress until 1828, when she married David Lee Child (1794-1874), a brilliant but erratic Boston lawyer and journalist.

The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French squadron.

Vera's remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not only Sonya, Nicholas, and Natasha, but even the old countess, who--dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making a brilliant match-- blushed like a girl.

She could not follow the opera nor even listen to the music; she saw only the painted cardboard and the queerly dressed men and women who moved, spoke, and sang so strangely in that brilliant light.

It was a gay and brilliant fete.

Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.

Natasha's unwontedly brilliant eyes, continually glancing at him with a more than cordial look, had reduced him to this condition.

An immense and brilliant suite surrounded him.

This brilliant company separated into several groups who all discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the position, the state of the army, the plans suggested, the situation of Moscow, and military questions generally.

A general with a brilliant suite galloped off at once to fetch the boyars.

Of an olive-green above, deeply tinted in some parts with black and in others lightened by yellow, and beneath of a yellowish-white again marked with black, the male of this species has at least a becoming if not a brilliant garb, and possesses a song that is not unmelodious, though the resemblance of some of its notes to the running-down of a piece of clockwork is more remarkable than pleasing.

It is probable that the Liberian chimpanzee may offer one or more distinct varieties; there is an interesting local development of the Diana monkey, sometimes called the bay-thighed monkey (Cercopithecus diana ignita) on account of its brilliant orange-red thighs.

In 1757 Voltaire came to reside at Lausanne; and although he took but little notice of the young Englishman of twenty, who eagerly sought and easily obtained an introduction, the establishment of the theatre at Monrepos, where the brilliant versifier himself declaimed before select audiences his own productions on the stage, had no small influence in fortifying Gibbon's taste for the French theatre, and in at the same time abating that "idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman."

But after three hours, Pescara's light horse having meantime been driven in by the superior light horse of the enemy, the artillery-loving duke of Ferrara conceived the brilliant plan of taking his mobile field-guns to the extreme right of the enemy.

From 1860 to 1870 he was professor of history at the faculty of letters at Strassburg, where he had a brilliant career as a teacher, but never yielded to the influence exercised by the German universities in the field of classical and Germanic antiquities.

There are other nebulae in which a nucleus can be just discerned, others again in which the nucleus is easily seen, and still others where the nucleus is a brilliant star-like point.

While the Spanish period of Jewish history was thus brilliant from the point of view of public service, it was equally notable on the literary side.

Brilliant results accrued from all this participation in the general life of Germany.

A brilliant account has come down of the ceremonies at the installation of a new exilarch.