Word Meanings - BRILLIANTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

Related words: (words related to BRILLIANTNESS)

• SPLENDOR
  1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
• BRILLIANCY
  The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.
• GLITTER
  glitenian, OS. glitan, OHG. glizzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, 1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden. 2.
• GLITTERINGLY
  In a glittering manner.
• GLITTERAND
  Glittering. Spenser.
• AGLITTER
  Clittering; in a glitter.
• SPLENDROUS; SPLENDOROUS
  Splendid. Drayton.