What is the meaning of BRILLIANT. Phrases containing BRILLIANT
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Short for "brilliant". Used by kids to mean cool.
adj popular abbreviation for “brilliant.” Well, popular amongst 1980s adolescents.
Highly counter productive attempt to suppress vomit with the hand. Introduced unceremoniously to the English language by ex-pat Aussie, Barry McKenzie in his infamous but brilliantly funny comic strip published in Private Eye.
A cook who fits food into pots and turns it into shit. (ed: stolen unashamedly from Sarah Henderson - brilliant stuff.)
Brilliant, e.g. "That was a pearler of a goal by Giggs!".
A qualification of all round brilliantness. Nectar means something that is really cool or tastes really nice ie: "That Burger Was Well Nectar.", "This Game Is Really Nectar".
short for "brilliant"; cool
brilliant, which means very good
adj unusually wonderful. A currently popular slang term, largely interchangeable with “brilliant” or “great.” You’d use it to describe the goal that your football team just scored, or your favourite Elton John song. Though if you even had a favourite Elton John song, there’s a good chance you’re unfamiliar with current slang.
(1) mad, insane (2) stupid (3) brilliant, marvellous. (4) bizarre, strange (5) (of BMX accidents) extremely painful.) (6) loud, violent (7) mentalist, a mentler.
adj. British slang for great or wonderful, brilliant. I've heard this from Jem (1985-1988) episode "Beauty and the Rock Promoter", which involes the bands doing a rock opera of French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" in London, England.
Used in similar fashion to "brilliant" or "cool". Often used alone, or to describe something or as a substitute for the word "really". Currently used by girls aged about 16 in a comprehensive school in Essex.
adj particularly good: I had a brilliant holiday; What a brilliant night out. It’s a little bit childish — you’d be less likely to refer to a “brilliant board meeting” or a “brilliant shag.” Also carries the usual other meanings (as “gifted” or “luminescent”) in the U.K.
- Short for "brilliant". Used by kids to mean cool.
Onamatapaic word for the forcible ejection of vomit, for example whilst driving the porcelain bus. Popularised by the brilliant Welsh comic Max Boyce.
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Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents.
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Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.
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A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
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Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
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A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge.
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A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.
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Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).
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A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
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Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
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A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
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Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.
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In a brilliant manner.
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Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.
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Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.
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A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.
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Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.
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Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
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Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
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A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.
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Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
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