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Brilliantly

Brilliantly \Bril"liant*ly\, adv. In a brilliant manner.

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brilliantly

adv. in a brilliant manner; done with brilliance

WordNet
brilliantly
  1. adv. with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright" [syn: brightly, bright]

  2. in an extremely intelligent way; "he solved the problem brilliantly"

Usage examples of "brilliantly".

Carl Sagan of Cornell, who has written brilliantly on this arcane subject.

Six spheres were within the packet, six spheres filled with some blue liquid that shone brilliantly in the flickering firelight, a pure deep blue like that of the ocean.

The only analogy Orion could think of that made any sense at all was that it felt as if he were some brilliantly made machine and the fusion generator that powered it had just come on-line.

As he looked and looked, suddenly the light was blindingly, brilliantly red.

Or rather, his brilliantly decorated rooms were like sets of a stage: at any time of day, men and women would sally down the glittering hallways, seeking each other out.

Out toward the Vild, where the stars burned so brilliantly they were sick with light, in each second of time, a million human beings cried out and died.

Finally, he found himself staring at a breathtakingly beautiful array of thousands of brilliantly colored bits and pieces of crystal, backlit like a stained-glass window.

The great prison spread out in a flat valley below them, brilliantly illuminated by the yellow glare of overhead lights, as surreal an industrial confection as a giant oil refinery.

The squares were coated in very thin sheets of brilliantly reflective Mylar.

Museum Drive, looking up at the brilliantly lit facade of the New York Museum of Natural History.

In one hand, he held a shield that flashed brilliantly in the winking strobes.

From it gushed billows of fog, brilliantly illuminated by the maniacal flashing of strobe lights.

The declining sun lighted brilliantly the eastern banks of Korus, the crimson sward, the gorgeous forest.

A second later the wall swung in, and I was pushed within a brilliantly lighted chamber in which sat three richly trapped men.

Immediately the roof rose again upon the other side, but no longer was the way brilliantly lighted.