| brilliant | | |
| adj. | 1. brilliant, superb | of surpassing excellence.; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor" |
| ~ superior | of high or superior quality or performance.; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" |
| adj. | 2. brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip | having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence.; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem" |
| ~ intelligent | having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree.; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" |
| adj. | 3. brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid | characterized by grandeur.; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" |
| ~ impressive | making a strong or vivid impression.; "an impressive ceremony" |
| adj. | 4. bright, brilliant, vivid | having striking color.; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" |
| ~ colorful, colourful | having striking color.; "colorful autumn leaves" |
| adj. | 5. brilliant | full of light; shining intensely.; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers" |
| ~ bright | emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts.; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room" |
| adj. | 6. bright, brilliant | clear and sharp and ringing.; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" |
| ~ reverberant | having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected.; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" |
| sheen | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. luster, lustre, sheen, shininess | the visual property of something that shines with reflected light. |
| ~ effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, radiance | the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| shellac | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. shellac | lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white. |
| ~ lac | resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax. |
| ~ stick lac | lac in its natural state as scraped off twigs and dried. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. shellac, shellac varnish | a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood. |
| ~ french polish shellac, french polish | a varnish for wood consisting of shellac dissolved in alcohol. |
| ~ varnish | a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface. |
| ~ lac | resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax. |
| v. (contact) | 3. shellac, shellack | cover with shellac.; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots" |
| ~ varnish, seal | cover with varnish. |
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