🇬🇧🇨🇳 brilliant - 杰出的 : English Lesson

Meaning of "brilliant" ("杰出的"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Brilliant means really, really smart or amazingly bright and impressive, like a super-smart idea, a dazzling light, or something so good it makes everyone say, “Wow!”

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My friend had a brilliant strategy in hide-and-seek: he hid behind a tree thinner than his leg.

The teacher said my question was brilliant, but I only asked it because I didn’t understand anything at all.

Our robot vacuum had a brilliant idea to eat my homework, and now I finally have proof it actually happens.

My cat thinks it’s brilliant to wake me up at 5 a.m. by jumping on my stomach like a trampoline.

Mom’s brilliant solution to us fighting over the TV was to turn it off and hand us a puzzle with 1,000 pieces of misery.

A small girl sits in the dark room. She draws a big star with a brilliant yellow pen. The star is brilliant on the wall. Her cat sees the brilliant light. Her friend says, "What a brilliant idea!" They clap. The girl smiles, happy. The room is bright and brilliant.

This word is at the A1 level, which means it is one of the first words you learn when starting English. It’s commonly used in everyday conversations and helps you communicate basic ideas like greetings, family, or daily activities.

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