brilliant (adj.)
- able
- accomplished
- adept
- adroit
- apt
- artistic
- authoritative
- beaming
- beautiful
- biting
- blinding
- blooming
- brainy
- bright
- burning
- celebrated
- charismatic
- clean
- clever
- colorful
- competent
- coordinated
- crack
- creative
- cunning
- cute
- daedal
- dazzling
- deft
- devastating
- dexterous
- dextrous
- diplomatic
- discerning
- distinguished
- divine
- droll
- edge
- effulgent
- eminent
- enlightened
- erudite
- excellent
- exceptional
- exotic
- expert
- facetious
- famous
- fancy
- flamboyant
- flaming
- fulgent
- fulgid
- funny
- garish
- gay
- gifted
- glamorous
- glaring
- glary
- glittering
- glorious
- glowing
- good
- goodish
- gorgeous
- graceful
- handy
- heavenly
- humorous
- illustrious
- imaginative
- incandescent
- ingenious
- intelligent
- intense
- jesting
- jocose
- jocular
- joking
- keen
- killing
- knowing
- knowledgeable
- lambent
- learned
- lucent
- luminous
- lustrous
- magic
- magisterial
- magnificent
- masterful
- masterly
- mordant
- neat
- nimble
- noted
- numinous
- outstanding
- pointed
- politic
- professional
- proficient
- prominent
- pungent
- quick
- quick-witted
- radiant
- ravishing
- ready
- refulgent
- remarkable
- renowned
- resourceful
- resplendent
- rich
- sage
- salt
- salty
- scintillating
- sharp
- shining
- skillful
- slick
- smart
- some
- sparkling
- splendent
- splendid
- sprightly
- statesmanlike
- striking
- stunning
- stylish
- sublime
- superb
- tactful
- talented
- twinkling
- virtuoso
- vivid
- well-done
- whimsical
- wise
- witty
- workmanlike
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,—
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.