BRILLIANT Synonyms

• having or deserving or conferring glory

• characterized by grandeur

• having great beauty and splendor

• characterized by grandeur

• having great beauty and splendor

• very good; of the highest quality

• characterized by grandeur

• of surpassing excellence

• surpassingly good

• very good; of the highest quality

• far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree

• surpassing what is common or usual or expected

• deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence

• showing inventiveness and skill

• extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

• too improbable to admit of belief

• being or having the character of a miracle

• surprising greatly

• inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

• mentally quick and resourceful

• showing inventiveness and skill

• amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning

• shining intensely

• beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special

• far more than usual or expected

• (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials

• ludicrously odd

• extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

• fanciful and unrealistic; foolish

• existing in fancy only

• extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

• unusual mental ability

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• exceptional creative ability

• a natural talent

• endowed with talent or talents

• making a strong or vivid impression

• producing a strong effect

• having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

• possessing sound knowledge

• exercising or showing good judgment

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• distinguished from others in excellence

• having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

• owed as a debt

• of major significance or importance