brilliant

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I think it's a brilliant move that shows Google thinking ahead and beyond what Dropbox is doing.

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of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor"

adjective

having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"

adjective

characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brilliant.

adjective

of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor"

adjective

having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"

adjective

characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"

See also: glorious, magnificent, splendid

adjective

having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"

adjective

full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers"

adjective

clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets"

Example sentences

I think it's a brilliant move that shows Google thinking ahead and beyond what Dropbox is doing.

Blindingly brilliant according to some of their peers.

"The app store is the most brilliant and brutal execution of this strategy.

So the ones you buy are usually created in a lab, but are more brilliant than a diamond, but actually cost less.

These are brilliant, fun, unflappable women, and they don't feel any need to subject themselves to that sort of crap.

But gussied up in Malcolm's writing style, it struck the epidemiologically naive as brilliant.

MS still has many brilliant engineers and is building alot of really complex stuff, probably more than your average startup ever will.

Before this, I had nowhere to post all my brilliant thoughts except medium, blogger, wordpress, posthaven, quora, facebook, google+, livejournal and myspace.

But a device that can run no compromise Office style apps, business apps, the millions of existing Windows apps in general... and then pick up and go with a nice touchscreen keyboard, touch UI, web browsing, etc... I know I've used the word a couple times but it's brilliant.

This particular conference had an amazing volunteer crew that had been together for years, many of whom had serious day jobs: brilliant designers, high-tech executives, etc. Knowing that the volunteers were gems, I knew that how the famous conference speakers treated them was all about the speakers.

I think the analogy is if thousands of brilliant engineers were working for a fossil-fuel power company - it would be a natural reaction to say "Gee I wish all those boffins were working on renewable energy instead".You might not agree with it, but it is a legitimate sentiment.