Reverse Dictionary: BRILLIANCE

ADJECTIVES
► ABLAZE brilliant, gleaming, glittering → 1851
► ALIGHT glowing with light or colour; brilliant, gleaming, glittering → 1817
► BREME brilliant, shining, bright → 1340 obs.
► BRIGHT 1. of light, a ray of light, etc.: intense, brilliant; of colour: brilliant, vivid → a1000
2. brilliant, illustrious; said of a person → 1250 
► BRILL ► BRILLO brilliant, amazing → 1981 colloq.
► CLEAR 1. brightly shining, brilliant, bright → 1297 obs.
2. bright, splendid, brilliant → 1362 obs.
► CUSHTY good, wonderful, fine, brilliant → 1929 UK sl.
► DANK brilliant, excellent → 1989 US sl.
► DAZZLING brilliant or splendid to a degree that dazzles → 1749
► DEADLY brilliant, excellent; fantastic; cool → 1960 sl.
► DIAMONDED brilliant and keen; endowed with the characteristics of a diamond → 1641 obs.
► EFFULGENT shining forth brilliantly → 1737
► FLAMING lashing, glowing, brilliant, emitting rays of light → 1400
► FLASHY glittering, sparkling, brilliant → 1609
► FLORID brilliant; strikingly beautiful → 1642 obs.
► FRESH of a colour: vivid, brilliant → 1405
► GAY brilliant, showy; bright or lively-looking, esp. in colour → 1300 
► GEMMY brilliant, gem-like; glittering → 1580 
► GLAZED brilliant, splendid → 1510 obs.
► GLORIOUS of colours, etc.: brilliant, shining, lustrous → 1315 obs.
► GLOWING brilliant, rich, and warm in colouring → 1400
► ILLUSTRIOUS having lustre or brilliancy → 1626 obs.
► IRIDICAL brilliant with rainbow colours → 1862
► IRRADIATE made bright or brilliant → 1526
► JEWELLED brilliant; beautiful, attractive → 1843
► JOLLY brilliant, showy, splendid → 1380 obs.
► LIGHTSOME brilliant, bright, splendid → 1548
► LIVELY of colour, light, and their effect: vivid, brilliant → 1425
► LUCULENT brilliant, illustrious: said of a person → 1600 obs.
► ORIENT brilliant, lustrous, shining, glowing, radiant, resplendent → 1430 arch.
► PATTERN delightful; brilliant,. excellent, first-rate → 1801 Anglo-Irish
► PRISMATIC brilliant; brightly coloured → 1820
► RANCID brilliant, excellent → 1993 Aust. sl.
► REPLENDISHING resplendent, brilliant → 1517 obs.
► RESPLENDENT shining, brilliant → 1513
► RESPLENDISHANT resplendent, brilliant → 1473 obs.
► RESPLENDISHING resplendent, brilliant → 1479 obs.
► SCINTILLANT of a person, or their writing, speech, etc.: brilliant, sparkling; lively and witty → 1764
► SCINTILLATING of a person, or their writing, speech, etc.: brilliant, sparkling; lively and witty → 1793
► SHINING of intellectual or moral qualities: eminent, brilliant, distinguished → a1000
► SPARKLING flashing, glittering, brilliant, resplendent → 1590
► SPLENDENT extremely brilliant, gorgeous, or magnificent → 1567
► SPLENDICANT brilliant, resplendent → 1592 obs.
► SPLENDID of colour or light: resplendent, brilliant, extremely bright → 1634
► SPLENDIDIOUS brilliant, splendid, magnificent, excellent, first-rate → 1432 obs.
► SPLENDIFEROUS brilliant, splendid, fine, gorgeous → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► STARLIKE of an action, quality, etc.: brilliant, splendid → 1594
► TRANSPLENDENT extremely shiny, brilliant, or dazzling → 1557
► VIVID of colour, light, etc.: brilliant, lively, bright → 1665
► WHIZZO ► WIZZO ► WIZZOH wonderful, brilliant, amazing → 1943 UK sl.

ADVERBS
► BREME splendidly, brilliantly, clearly → a1000 obs.
► BRIGHTLY brilliantly, radiantly, in a bright or shining manner → a1000
► GLORIOUSLY brilliantly, splendidly → 1393
► ILLUSTRIOUSLY brilliantly, brightly → 1638 obs.
► ORIENTALLY brilliantly, lustrously → 1649 obs.
► ORIENTLY brilliantly, lustrously; in an ‘orient’ manner; clearly → 1515 obs.
► RESPLENDENTLY brilliantly → 1487
► SCINTILLATINGLY brilliantly, in a brightly glittering or sparkling manner → 1875
► SHININGLY brightly, brilliantly → 1440
► SHONE brightly, brilliantly, radiantly → 1595 obs.
► THRISSLY ► THRISTLY brilliantly, splendidly, clearly; loudly, fiercely → 1804 obs.
► VIVIDLY brightly, brilliantly → 1668

NOUNS
► ALIGHTING light, brilliance → a1000 obs.
► BLASENESS brilliancy, brightness → 1398 obs.
► BLAZE brilliant light, brightness, brilliancy → 1586
► BLOW a display of anything brilliant → 1710
► BRIGHTHEAD brightness; brilliance, splendour → 1300 obs.
► BRILLANT brilliancy → 1676 obs.
► CANDOR ► CANDOUR brilliancy, brilliant whiteness → 1634 obs.
► CARBUNCLE something resembling a carbuncle in brilliance or colour → 1350 obs.
► CLEARNESS brightness, splendour, brilliancy → 1400 obs.
► CYNOSURE something that attracts attention by its brilliancy or beauty → 1601
► DASHER a brilliant or dashing attempt or motion → 1884 colloq.
► DASHING a brilliant or daring action; a showy liveliness in manner, dress, behaviour → 1800 colloq.
► DASHY a brilliant or daring action; a showy liveliness in manner, dress, behaviour → 1820 colloq.
► ÉCLAT brilliancy, radiance, dazzling effect → 1676 obs.
► ECLIPSE loss of brilliance or splendour → 1598
► FAIRNESS brightness, brilliance → 1400 obs.
► FLAME brilliance, brilliant colouring → 1800
► FLASH superficial brilliancy; ostentation → 1674
► FULGURANCE dazzling brilliance, as of lightning → 1652 
► GLARE dazzling brilliance of a light, fire, etc. → 1540
► GLISTER a bright light, brilliance, lustre → 1535
► GLISTERING brilliance, glitter → 1450
► GLITTER brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendour → 1602
► ILLUSTRIOUSNESS brilliance, resplendency → 1650 obs.
► LIGHTNESS brilliance, radiance, splendour → a1000 obs.
► LUCENCE brilliance, luminosity → 1485 literal and figurative
► LUCENCY brilliance, luminosity → 1656 literal and figurative
► LUSTRE brilliancy, bright light → 1550
► NITENCY lustre, brilliance → 1755 obs.
► NITOR brightness, brilliance → 1607 obs.
► ORIENCE brilliancy, lustre → 1858
► ORIENCY brilliancy, lustre → 1652 
► ORIENTNESS brilliancy, lustre; the quality of being ‘orient’ → 1519 obs.
► PREFULGENCE pre-eminent brilliance, radiance, or splendour → 1892
► REFULGENCE brilliance, radiance, lustrousness → 1624
► RESPLENDENCE brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendour → 1475
► RESPLENDENCY brilliance → 1599
► RESPLENDISHURE brilliance, resplendence → 1473 obs.
► SHININGNESS brightness, brilliance → 1703
► SOUTHRON a brilliant act → 1470 sl.
► TRANSPLENDENCY supereminent brilliancy or splendour → 1664
► VIVACITY of light or colour: brightness, brilliancy → 1735

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAMBER a brilliant person; an intellectual → 1989 UK sl.
► FLASH a brilliant or ‘showy’ person; one vain of his or her accomplishments or appearance → 1605 obs.
► FLASHER a person of brilliant accomplishment or appearance → 1755 obs.
► WHIZ-KID ► WHIZZ-KID an exceptionally brilliant or successful young person → 1960 sl., orig. US

VERBS
► BARNSTORM to perform spectacularly or brilliantly → 1958
► BLAZE to shine or be conspicuous with brilliancy of character, renown, etc. → 1639
► ENLUMINE to make illustrious or brilliant → 1386 obs.
► FAN THE HAMMER to act in a brilliant but unscrupulous manner → 1909 US sl.
► GLAZE to make brilliant; to make shine like glass → 1440
► GLISTER to sparkle, to glitter, to be brilliant → 1380 arch.
► GLITTER to make a brilliant appearance or display → 1548
► OUTBLAZE to surpass in brilliance → 1634
► OUTFLAME to surpass in brilliance or fieriness → 1658
► OUTFLASH to surpass in brilliance, to outshine → 1833
► SCINTILLATE of a person, or their writing, speech, etc.: to be brilliant; to shine, to sparkle → 1828
► SIDEREALIZE to raise to a superior level of brilliance or refinement → 1867
► VIVIFY to make brighter or more brilliant → 1791