different between brilliant vs lustrous
brilliant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French brillant (late 17th century), present participle of the verb briller, from Italian brillare, possibly from Latin berillus, beryllus (“a beryl, gem, eyeglass”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (b?rullos, “beryl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??lj?nt/
Adjective
brilliant (comparative more brilliant, superlative most brilliant)
- Shining brightly.
- the brilliant lights along the promenade
- (of a colour) Both bright and saturated.
- butterflies with brilliant blue wings
- (of a voice or sound) Having a sharp, clear tone
- (Britain) Of surpassing excellence.
- The actor's performance in the play was simply brilliant.
- (Britain) Magnificent or wonderful.
- Highly intelligent.
- She is a brilliant scientist.
Synonyms
- (shining brightly): glittering, shining
- (of a colour: both light and saturated):
- (of a voice or sound: having a sharp, clear tone):
- (surpassing excellence): excellent, distinctive, striking, superb (obsolete except in UK usage)
- (magnificent or wonderful): exceptional, glorious, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful (obsolete except in UK usage)
- (highly intelligent): brainy, ingenious
- See also Thesaurus:intelligent
Related terms
- brilliance
- brilliantine
- brilliantly
- brilliantness
- beryl (possibly)
- beryllium (possibly)
Translations
Noun
brilliant (countable and uncountable, plural brilliants)
- A finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, cut in a particular form with numerous facets so as to maximize light return through the top (called "table") of the stone.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, The Basset-Table
- This snuffbox — on the hinge see brilliants shine.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, The Basset-Table
- (uncountable, printing, dated) The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.
- Most hummingbird species of the genus Heliodoxa.
- A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.
Descendants
- (small type size): (German) Brillant
Translations
Further reading
- brilliant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- brilliant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- brilliant at OneLook Dictionary Search
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
French brillant.
Noun
brilliant
- brilliant.
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
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lustrous
English
Etymology
lustre +? -ous
Adjective
lustrous (comparative more lustrous, superlative most lustrous)
- Having a glow or lustre.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]
- Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
- 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, [2]
- Or Time and Space,
- Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
- Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
- Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
- Be ye my Gods.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,[3]
- It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.
- 1936, Wallace Stevens, "Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, p. 123,
- The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle
- Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,
- Flood on flood, of our returning sun.
- 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, 2001, Chapter 1,[4]
- The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]
- As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
Translations
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