What are some opposite words for brilliancy?
Antonyms for brilliancy
ˈbrɪl yən sibril·lian·cy
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term brilliancy.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
brilliancy
Antonyms:
fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, incapacity, senselessness, stupiditySynonyms:
acuteness, astuteness, capacity, common sense, intelligence, sagacity, sense, soundness, wisdom
Princeton's WordNet
luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendournoun
a quality that outshines the usual
Synonyms:
sheen, shininess, splendor, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, brilliance, luster, splendour, lustre
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
brilliancynoun
Synonyms:
brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance
How to use brilliancy in a sentence?
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as brilliancy from Jupiter.
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground.
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#20444 | stupidity | |
#21891 | folly | |
#31904 | incapacity | |
#47276 | foolishness | |
#48388 | idiocy | |
#118635 | brilliancy | |
#173706 | imbecility | |
#245809 | senselessness |
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