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 Translation for 'brilliant' from English to French
ADJ   brilliant | more brilliant | most brilliant
NOUN   a brilliant | brilliants
SYNO brainy | bright | brilliant | ...
fulgurant {adj} [imagination]brilliant
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brillant {adj}brilliant
aveuglant {adj}brilliant
resplendissant {adj}brilliant
éclatant {adj} [lumière]brilliant
balèze {adj} [intellectuel]brilliant
d'enfer {adj}brilliant [excellent]
de génie {adj}brilliant [ingenious]
d'une grande intensité {adj} [lumière]brilliant [lighting]
magistral {adj}brilliant [masterly]
Chouette ! [fam.]Brilliant! [Br.]
2 Words
arts
jaune brillant {adj}
brilliant yellow
pas brillant {adj} [résultat, performance]not brilliant
Tu es un as ! [fam.]You're brilliant! [coll.]
brillante performance {f}brilliant achievement
théâtre
jeu {m} brillant [d'acteur]
brilliant acting
théâtre
bête {f} de scène
brilliant actor
idée {f} de géniebrilliant idea
surdoué {m}brilliant student
éduc.
brillant sujet {m}
brilliant student
surdouée {f}brilliant student [female]
3 Words
pas folichon [fam.]far from brilliant [coll.] [lacking intellect]
éduc.
briller en qc. [matière]
to be brilliant at sth.
4 Words
cuis.
être un as en cuisine
to be a brilliant cook [coll.]
5+ Words
mus.
enlever qc. [morceau de musique]
to give a brilliant rendering of sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • Ole Miss Law School Dean Robert Farley described him as such : "He was not a brilliant lawyer, He was a brilliant jury manipulator, but I don't think anybody ever accused Ross of knowing much law".
  • "Allobates femoralis" (common name brilliant-thighed poison frog, brilliant-thighed poison-arrow frog) is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae.
  • The second version was the Brilliant Uncirculated.
  • Hank's brilliant start to his career continued in 1946 with the first of back-to-back Magarey Medals – the SANFL's highest individual award for the "fairest and most brilliant" player.
  • The culet has remained optional on many diamond cuts up to the present day, and was omitted from Marcel Tolkowsky's original designs for the round brilliant diamond cut in 1919.

  • One former wife, who asked that she not be identified, said to "The New York Times": “It is a long and sad, sad story — a brilliant, brilliant man who was deeply flawed".
  • In September, a new series of "Brilliant Britain" began piloting.
  • Brilliant blue FCF is extensively used as a water tracer agent.
  • The round brilliant cut and square brilliant cuts are preferred when the crystal is an octahedron, as often two stones may be cut from one such crystal.
  • In the 1870s the "brilliant", "brilliant cut" or "American Brilliant" style emerged, perhaps first seen in America in glass exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition: "its most complex brilliant cutting involved covering the glass surface with intersecting cuts that created innumerable, often fragmentary shapes making up larger patterns.

  • Under the trade names ILM Blue and Brilliant Peel, brilliant blue G is used as a stain to assist surgeons in retinal surgery.
  • Naomi was interviewed and performed live on BBC Radio Manchester on the Becky Want show with Amy Clowes who described her live performance on the show as "Brilliant, absolutely brilliant".
  • She is playmates with Prince Brilliant. Prince Brilliant is very brilliant and wise but compared to Lady Daffodilia is quite short.
  • The Brilliant 10 diamond design is a 71 facet round brilliant cut diamond design developed and patented by Shimansky.
  • Of those few who foresaw the fall of the Soviet Union, including Andrei Amalrik, author Walter Laqueur argued in 1995 that they were largely accidental prophets, possessors of both brilliant insight into the regime's weaknesses and even more brilliant luck.

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