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brilliant
1. Extremely bright or radiant; such as, brilliant sunshine or a brilliant smile.
2. Showing exceptional intelligence, ability, skill, or talent; having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence: "She was a brilliant computer technician."
3. Distinguished by excellence.
4. Imposingly splendid or magnificent.
5. Etymology: from French, "sparkling, shining"; present participle of briller, "to shine"; from Italian brillare, "sparkle, whirl"; probably from Vulgar Latin berillare; from berillus, "beryl, precious stone"; from Latin beryllus and Greek beryllos, "hard, lustrous mineral".
2. Showing exceptional intelligence, ability, skill, or talent; having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence: "She was a brilliant computer technician."
3. Distinguished by excellence.
4. Imposingly splendid or magnificent.
5. Etymology: from French, "sparkling, shining"; present participle of briller, "to shine"; from Italian brillare, "sparkle, whirl"; probably from Vulgar Latin berillare; from berillus, "beryl, precious stone"; from Latin beryllus and Greek beryllos, "hard, lustrous mineral".
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“brilliant”
(Latin: to shine, shining; to gleam, to glisten; illustrious; bright; brilliant, brilliance; magnificent, sumptuous)