You can say that something is brilliant when you are very pleased about it or think that it is very good. If you get a chance to see the show, do go -- it's brilliant My sister's given me this brilliant book. = great awful + brilliantly bril·liant·ly It's extremely hard working together but on the whole it works brilliantly and we're still good friends
full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers" characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor
A brilliant career or success is very successful. He served four years in prison, emerging to find his brilliant career in ruins The raid was a brilliant success. + brilliantly bril·liant·ly The strategy worked brilliantly
A brilliant colour is extremely bright. a brilliant white open-necked shirt. + brilliantly bril·liant·ly Many of the patterns show brilliantly coloured flowers. + brilliance bril·liance an iridescent blue butterfly in all its brilliance
Untoned Without tarnish or oxidation, and with original cartwheel (i e frosty) or prooflike lustre A copper coin is usually referred to as brilliant if it has full original red A silver, nickel or gold coin is usually described as brilliant if it has no toning or oxidation (although it may have some spots or light toning hues about the periphery), and its original lustre is more or less intact
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
characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"