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Definitions: Brilliantly |
BrilliantlyAdverb1. With brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright". 2. In an extremely intelligent way; "he solved the problem brilliantly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brilliantly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: BrilliantlySynonyms: bright (adv), brightly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brilliantly |
| English words defined with "brilliantly": Argus, argus pheasant ♦ bird of paradise, Bitis gabonica, blaze away, butterfly fish ♦ Castilleia coccinea, coral snake ♦ damselfish, demoiselle ♦ Epimachus, Euthiochroic acid ♦ family Lycaenidae, flamboyant, fluorescent ♦ gaboon viper ♦ harlequin-snake ♦ Labroid, Lepomis gibbosus, Lycaenidae ♦ macaw, maxillaria, monal, monaul ♦ New World coral snake ♦ pitta, pumpkinseed ♦ resplendent ♦ scintillating, Sunbird ♦ tortoiseshell, tortoiseshell butterfly, toucan, tragopan ♦ unrestrained ♦ Vernicose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "brilliantly": Cape ruby ♦ precious garnet ♦ Secret Order, Street. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Clusters of stars and a fishhook-shaped cloud of luminescent gases glow brilliantly in NGC ... Credit: NASA. |
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Rush Limbaugh | The environmentalist wackos have actually set themselves up rather brilliantly, because everybody is for clean water and clean air. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | The high character of the American commander was brilliantly sustained on the occasion which brought his own ship into close action with that of his adversary, as was the accustomed gallantry of all the officers and men actually engaged. |
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| "Brilliantly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Brilliantly" is used about 528 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.81% | 527 | 11,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 528 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "brilliantly": brilliantly original idea. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "brilliantly": brilliantly-coloured, brilliantly-executed, brilliantly-taken, brilliantly-varnished, brilliantly-worked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "brilliantly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 精采地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | virtuóznì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | brillamment, génialement, avec éclat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glänzend (brilliant, clinking, dazzling, effulgent, effulgently, gleaming, gleamy, glistening, glittering, glossily, glossing, glossy, ingenious, ingeniously, lustered, lustrous, lustrously, marvelous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, resplendently, sheeny, shinily, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendid, splendidly, vintage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ragyogóan (brightly, glaringly, gorgeously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gilap (brilliantly shining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 煌煌と (brightly), 煌々と (brightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "う"うと (brightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " 하게 (gorgeously, Ornately, splendidly, sumptuously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illiantlybray brilhantemente (brightly). (various references) strãlucit (bright, brilliant, gorgeous, illustrious, luminous), sclipitor (bright, brilliant, flaming, flashy, fulgent, gleaming, shining), genial (brilliant, gifted, great). (various references) ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Brilliantly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: briliantly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brilliantly" (pronounced bri"lyuntlē) |
| 7 | -l y u n t l ē | valiantly. |
| 6 | -y u n t l ē | conveniently, leniently, poignantly. |
| 5 | -u n t l ē | abundantly, accidently, adamantly, apparently, ardently, arrogantly, blatantly, coherently, competently, complacently, concomitantly, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, currently, decently, defiantly, differently, diligently, efficiently, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, excellently, extravagantly, exultantly, fervently, flagrantly, flamboyantly, fluently, fraudulently, frequently, hesitantly, imminently, impatiently, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, independently, indignantly, inefficiently, infrequently, inherently, innocently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intermittently, magnificently, militantly, negligently, obediently, patently, patiently, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, predominantly, presently, prominently, prudently, pungently, recently, reluctantly, reverently, significantly, silently, stridently, stringently, subsequently, sufficiently, transparently, triumphantly, unpleasantly, urgently, vehemently, violently, virulently. |
| 4 | -n t l ē | bluntly, faintly, gently, intently, jointly, nonchalantly, quaintly, saintly. |
| 3 | -t l ē | abruptly, absolutely, accurately, acutely, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, appropriately, approximately, aptly, astutely, brightly, commensurately, compassionately, completely, concretely, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, curtly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, difficultly, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, elaborately, exactly, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, firstly, flatly, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imperfectly, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, incorrectly, indefinitely, indirectly, indiscriminately, ineptly, infinitely, innately, inordinately, intimately, intricately, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, legitimately, lightly, manifestly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, nightly, overtly, partly, passionately, perfectly, politely, portly, priestly, privately, promptly, proportionately, quietly, raptly, remotely, resolutely, rightly, robustly, secretly, separately, shortly, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, succinctly, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unsightly, vastly, Whitely. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-l-l-n-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: brilliant. | |
-3 letters: brainily, lability, tribally. | |
-4 letters: ability, anility, bairnly, biliary, rainily, riantly. | |
-5 letters: airily, artily, binary, brainy, litany, nitril, ratlin, tibial, tinily, tribal, trilby, trinal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-l-l-n-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: controllability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 69 6C 6C 69 61 6E 74 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .. .-.. .-.. .. .- -. - .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r i l l i a n t l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0069 006C 006C 0069 0061 006E 0074 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3684757878756780867891 |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation; Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese; Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, الهنغاري, مجري, هنغاري, المجري, اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian; Indonesies, indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, Indonesiu, индонезийски език, индонезийски, 印度尼西亚语, 印度尼西亞語 , indonéský, indonéština, indonésan, indoneser, Indonesisch, Indisch, Indonesiër, indonesiskt, indonesialainen, indonésien, Yndonesysk, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, インドネシア語 , インドネシア", 인도네시아, Indoneesagh, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, Indtasisian, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, indones, Indonesyo, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійський, індонезійська мова, індонезійка, người In-ddô-nê-xi-a tiếng In-ddô-nê-xi-a, for Indonesian; korean, كوري شمالي, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري, Coreanu, корейски, корейски език, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejský, korejec, korejština, Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτησ, κορεάτικοσ, koreai, 한국, koreano, coréia, a língua coreana, coreean, limba coreeanã, кореец, корейский, Kolea, korejski jezik, korejski, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên, for korean; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; Roemeen, rumun, Rumanu, румънски език, румънски, румънец, Romanyan, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, rumenskt, romanialainen, roumain, Roemeensk, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, romanés, român, румын, румынский, rumunski, rumunski jezik, rumano, rumänsk, румунська мова, румун, румунський, румунка, for Romanian; Turks, turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish; |
