What does brilliantly mean?
Word: Brilliantly
Part of Speech: Adverb
Meaning: Brilliantly means in an extremely clever, skilful or impressive way; also with very bright light.
Synonyms: excellently, splendidly, dazzlingly
Antonyms: poorly, badly, dimly
How do you spell brilliantly?
Syllables: bril - liant - ly
Tricky part: The double l comes early, and the vowels after it are i then a, not i then e. Students often write brilliently or drop one l.
Watch out for: briliantly, brilliently, brillantly
Memory tip: Two tall candles light up the start of the word: those are its two l's.
Brilliantly in a sentence
Example 1: Sindhu played brilliantly in the deciding game of the final.
Example 2: The two Class 7 students explained their solar cooker brilliantly to the judges.
Example 3: The full moon shone brilliantly over the river ghats.
Fun Fact
A brilliant is also the name of a famous diamond cut. A round brilliant has 57 or 58 small flat faces, called facets, to make the stone sparkle.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. excelence 2. magnificant 3. spectaculer 4. brilliantly
a) in an extremely clever or skilful way
b) very exciting to look at
c) the quality of being outstandingly good
d) very beautiful, grand or impressive
Show answer
a) in an extremely clever or skilful way. Magnificent ends in -ent, spectacular in -ar and excellence needs two l's; brilliantly is spelt correctly.
Word Connection
Choose the word closest in meaning to brilliantly as used in the sentence:
Our captain led the side brilliantly in the inter-school quiz, answering the toughest rapid-fire round alone.
a) quietly
b) clumsily
c) slowly
d) superbly
Show answer
d) superbly. Doing something brilliantly is doing it superbly; clumsily is the opposite.
Mingle-Mangle
The sentence contains a jumbled word. Choose the word it hides:
The young pianist played tbylrilnail at her very first concert.
a) bitterly
b) brightly
c) brilliantly
d) brutally
Show answer
c) brilliantly. Brightly, bitterly and brutally have no n, so none of them uses every letter of the jumble.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Everyone agreed that the chess club had performed brillianly in the district tournament, winning every single match without losing a game.
a) tournament
b) district
c) chess
d) brillianly
Show answer
d) brillianly. Brilliantly keeps the t before the ly, so brillianly is the slip.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A student answers a question brilliantly. The teacher will probably ____.
a) praise her for an outstanding answer
b) tell her to try something easier
c) ask her to sit down quietly
d) suggest she read the question again
Show answer
a) praise her for an outstanding answer
2. Brilliantly lit is the best description of ____.
a) a stage with powerful spotlights at a concert
b) a path under heavy clouds at dusk
c) a cave with a single match flame
d) a room during a power cut
Show answer
a) a stage with powerful spotlights at a concert
