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brilliant
Synonyms and Antonyms of brilliant
1
giving off or reflecting much light
ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot
agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking
2
having or showing quickness of mind
acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
boobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
3
likely to attract attention
arresting, bodacious, bold, catchy, commanding, conspicuous, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, grabby, kenspeckle [chiefly Scottish], marked, noisy, noticeable, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, splashy, striking
detectable, discernible (also discernable), observable, perceptible, recognizable, visible
distinguished, eminent, impressive, notable, noteworthy
flagrant, glaring, howling, screaming
flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, jazzy, loud, meretricious, swank (or swanky), tawdry
highfalutin (also hifalutin), ostentatious, pretentious
extravagant, fancy, florid, glittery, spectacular
opulent, ornate, overdone, overwrought
absorbing, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, interesting, riveting
Synonym Discussion of brilliant
brilliant
Synonyms and Antonyms of brilliant
a usually valuable stone cut and polished for ornament
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