Usually means: Exceptionally clever or talented; outstanding.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word brilliant:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. brilliant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. brilliant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brilliant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brilliant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brilliant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brilliant, brilliant: Wordnik
  7. brilliant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brilliant: Wiktionary
  9. brilliant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brilliant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brilliant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brilliant, brilliant: Dictionary.com
  13. brilliant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brilliant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brilliant (D'espairsRay song), Brilliant (Ultravox album), Brilliant (album), Brilliant (band), Brilliant (comics), Brilliant (diamond cut), Brilliant (film), Brilliant (schooner), Brilliant (ship), Brilliant (typography), Brilliant, Brilliant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brilliant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brilliant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brilliant: Rhymezone
  19. brilliant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brilliant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Brilliant: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. brilliant: Free Dictionary
  23. brilliant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. brilliant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. brilliant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brilliant: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brilliant: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Brilliant (diamond cut), brilliant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brilliant, brilliant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. brilliant (!): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. brilliant: Coin Collecting

(Note: See brilliantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Shining brightly.
adjective:  (of a colour) Both bright and saturated.
adjective:  (of a voice or sound) Having a sharp, clear tone.
adjective:  (British) Of surpassing excellence.
adjective:  (British) Magnificent or wonderful.
adjective:  Highly intelligent.
noun:  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.
noun:  (uncountable, printing, dated) The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.
noun:  Most hummingbird species of the genus Heliodoxa.
noun:  A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.

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