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 Translation for 'far from brilliant' from English to French
pas folichon [fam.]far from brilliant [coll.] [lacking intellect]
Partial Matches
loin de {prep}far from
pas loin de {prep}not far from
loin de là {adv} [loc.]far from it [idiom]
revenir de lointo come back from far away
Il s'en faut de beaucoup.It is (very) far from it.
Il n'est pas au bout de ses peines [dans une situation pénible]His troubles are far from over.
littérat.F
Le pisseur de copie [1989]
A Far Cry from Kensington [Muriel Spark]
littérat.F
À cent lieues de Kensington [2003]
A Far Cry from Kensington [Muriel Spark]
Ça s'approche de la vérité.It's not far from the truth.
être bien loin de faire qc.to be a far cry from doing sth. [idiom]
aveuglant {adj}brilliant
resplendissant {adj}brilliant
brillant {adj}brilliant
fulgurant {adj} [imagination]brilliant
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balèze {adj} [intellectuel]brilliant
éclatant {adj} [lumière]brilliant
pas brillant {adj} [résultat, performance]not brilliant
théâtre
jeu {m} brillant [d'acteur]
brilliant acting
éduc.
brillant sujet {m}
brilliant student
brillante performance {f}brilliant achievement
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Usage Examples English
  • The town garden used to be popular with visitors who came from near and far to enjoy the display of willows, bamboos and the brilliant reds and yellows of the "Delonix regia" trees.
  • From stark black and white to a splash of brilliant colors and on to a subtle moody sepia, then back to a black and white, gentle this time.
  • At 01:05 a huge, brilliant fireball approached from the southwest and lit the sky and ground for hundreds of miles.
  • The nominate subspecies of green-crowned brilliant is found from Panamá Province in eastern Panama into Colombia, where it inhabits all three Andean ranges.
  • It is said that Jumla had collected an army of twenty-two thousand men to face the Gorkhalis, a force far superior to anything the Gorkhalis could put in the field at that time In the first major military operation itself Bhakti Thapa had demonstrated his exceptionally brilliant skill in launching a very successful operation under the most adverse condition that was sure to astonish anyone.

  • The name Kwangmyŏngsŏng ("bright star", "brilliant star" or "constellation" in Korean) is from a poem written by Kim Il-sung.
  • Her father Peter Pazukhin also made a brilliant military career and went from Praporshchik to Colonel; he had been serving in the Simbirsk infantry regiment since 1733.
  • Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator; Speaker Onslow going so far as to say that "Harcourt had the greatest skill and power of speech of any man I ever knew in a public assembly."
  • He moved the ball along the front of Rovers penalty area to Martin Mc Donnell who sent a brilliant pass down the left wing to Mc Loughlin.
  • The thick-billed parrots are stocky brilliant green Neotropical parrots with heavy black beaks of genus "Rhynchopsitta" of thick billed macaw-like parrots.

  • Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware.
  • According to Woods, "His descriptions of storms at sea and atmospheric effects were brilliant pieces of word painting, but his characterization was often indifferent, and his plots were apt to become monotonous."
  • George is a stock broker and is brilliant at math.
  • Beds of snow commonly alternate with exposed slopes covered with brilliant vegetation without an obvious boundary of perpetual snow.
  • Doctor Walter Benner has the reputation of being brilliant but strange and sets about living up to both aspects when he arrives.

  • It soon becomes clear that the defenses of the spaceport have been severely compromised and Julian is unsure whether the governor is a "complete and total idiot—or else subtly brilliant".
  • She eventually reveals the brilliant glitter of her gem and helps the people that she loves in her family to untie the knot of many years of disputes, to accept each other once again.
  • George V the Brilliant ([...] , "Giorgi V Brtskinvale"; also translated as the "Illustrious", or "Magnificent"; 1286/1289–1346) was King of Georgia from 1299 to 1302 and again from 1314 until his death in 1346.
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