Qualities
Synonyms for brilliant
Synonyms for brilliant: magnificent, brainy, bright, superb and vivid. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for brilliant
Interchangeable with brilliant, one per sense
Audited under brilliant's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one brilliant carries in that sense.
- magnificentadjective, in the sense "characterized by grandeur"
- brainyadjective, in the sense "having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name brilliant as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under brilliant's own senses. The second reach brilliant from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
characterized by grandeur
The brilliant court life at Versailles.
brilliant in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The ambassador's residence hosted a brilliant reception that dazzled every visiting dignitary.
- Photographs from the coronation show a brilliant procession of carriages, banners, and uniformed guards.
How it behaves: In this sense brilliant typically premodifies a noun denoting an event, setting, or spectacle, and appears in formal or literary description of pageantry rather than everyday speech.
The true synonym
magnificent
Same sentence, swapped: The magnificent court life at Versailles.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot brilliant is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- bright
- brainy
- professional
Opposites, in this sense
dreary, shabby and drab reverse brilliant as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of brilliant takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- dreary
- shabby
- drab
having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence
A brilliant solution to the problem.
The true synonym
brainy
Same sentence, swapped: A brainy solution to the problem.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- fancy
- professional
- burning
Where brilliant turns up in the game
brilliant is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play brilliant
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so brilliant reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. brilliant carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.