brilliant

of surpassing excellence

• “a brilliant performance”
• “a superb actor”

having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence

• “some men dislike brainy women”
• “a brilliant mind”
• “a brilliant solution to the problem”

characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur

• “the brilliant court life at Versailles”
• “a glorious work of art”
• “magnificent cathedrals”
• “the splendid coronation ceremony”

having striking color

• “bright greens”
• “brilliant tapestries”
• “a bird with vivid plumage”

full of light; shining intensely

• “a brilliant star”
• “brilliant chandeliers”

clear and sharp and ringing

• “the bright sound of the trumpet section”
• “the brilliant sound of the trumpets”