brilliant

«brilliant» in Mova's school dictionary: very clever or talented — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (brilliant, more brilliant, most brilliant)

meaning for a pupil

1) Brilliant means very clever or talented. tree →

2) Brilliant means very bright and shining, like brilliant sunshine. tree →

3) In British, Irish and Australian everyday speech, brilliant means really good or great. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children and teachers say brilliant to praise good work or good news. In science, brilliant light is very bright. In stories, a brilliant detective or inventor is very clever. Phrases: a brilliant idea, brilliant colours, That's brilliant!

examples

• What a brilliant idea! tree →
• She is a brilliant scientist. tree →
• The sun was brilliant in the blue sky. tree →
• The parrot has brilliant green feathers. tree →
• We had a brilliant time at the beach. tree →
• Brilliant work on your story, Sam! tree →
• The diamond was brilliant in the light. tree →
• I’m sure to have a brilliant idea for you before long.’ tree →

note

Spelling: double l: b-r-i-l-l-i-a-n-t. Adverb: brilliantly; noun: brilliance. In the UK people often say brill for short. In the USA, brilliant mostly means very clever or very bright, less often just good.

In the corpora

• Being brilliant at one game does not make an AI good at everything.
• Skin is also a brilliant repair kit.
• The boys groaned when they found out — and then had a brilliant afternoon on a racing game and a building game anyway.
• For one second it felt brilliant.
• Not every brilliant player is a cheater, though.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brilliant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.