Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: brilliantly
IPA transcription: [bɹ'ɪljəntli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: brilliantly, brightly, bright
    Meaning: with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright"
  • Synonyms: brilliantly
    Meaning: in an extremely intelligent way; "he solved the problem brilliantly"
Usage examples
  • The Duma brilliantly illuminated and great crowds pouring in.
  • It was a brilliantly clear night and a flood of moonlight was pouring into the camp.
  • A second turn brought us into a square, brilliantly lighted, and overflowing with life.
  • Burnet pulled less strongly as it got farther away, and Europe beckoned more brilliantly now that they were fairly embarked on their journey.
  • The Kimberly products are not to be compared to these," and he looked at the two stones in his hand--the one cut, and sparkling brilliantly, the other in a rough state.
  • It's so evident that resigning from his club means so much more to him than preventing it does to us that I felt futile when I argued; finally took a position that was brilliantly neutral.
  • He seemed by his manner to be encouraging us to have patience, nodding to us in a cheerful although rather odd way, and smiling constantly, so as to display a set of the most brilliantly white teeth.
  • Her broken-hearted husband not only consented to Vincent's residence in the College des Bons Enfants, but shortly afterwards, leaving that world where he had shone so brilliantly, he himself became a postulant at the Oratory.
  • When I reached the bottom I discovered that I was in a huge palace, as brilliantly lighted as any palace above ground that I had ever seen, with a long gallery supported by pillars of jasper, ornamented with capitals of gold.
  • It is a singular fact that no British moths which are brilliantly coloured, and, as far as I can discover, hardly any foreign species, differ much in colour according to sex; though this is the case with many brilliant butterflies.