Word Meanings - BRILLIANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sparkle , fr. L. beryllus a 1. Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star. 2. Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splended; shining; as, brilliant talents. Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal

Additional info about word: BRILLIANT

sparkle , fr. L. beryllus a 1. Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star. 2. Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splended; shining; as, brilliant talents. Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes than to perform brilliant exploits. Fisher Ames. Syn. -- See Shining.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRILLIANT)

• Bright
• Shining
• brilliant
• burnished
• luminous
• lucid
• sparkling
• limpid
• clever
• happy
• witty
• joyous
• cheerful
• radiant
• Illustrious
• Renowned
• glorious
• deathless
• eminent
• distinguished
• celebrated
• conspicuous
• noble
• famous
• Radiant
• Beaming
• lustrous
• glittering
• splendid
• shining
• beauteous
• Resplendent
• Brilliant
• gorgeous
• flashing
• Smart
• Keen
• pungent
• piercing
• quick
• vigorous
• sharp
• severe
• active
• vivacious
• ready
• spruce
• brisk
• fresh
• dressy
• showy

Related words: (words related to BRILLIANT)

• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• BEAMFUL
  Beamy; radiant.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• BEAMLESS
  1. Not having a beam. 2. Not emitting light.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• BEAMY
  1. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell. 2. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden. 3. Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.