brilliantly

1. 1.

   with brightness

   “the stars shone brilliantly”

   “the windows glowed jewel bright”

   Synonymsbrightlybright
2. 2.

   in an extremely intelligent way

   “he solved the problem brilliantly”

Questions about brilliantly

What does brilliantly mean?

brilliantly means "with brightness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brilliantly?

brilliantly has 3 syllables: bril-liant-ly. The stress falls on "bril". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪljəntli/.

What is another word for brilliantly?

Close synonyms include brightly, bright. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.