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unbrilliant

unbrilliant adjective: not brilliant.

Adjective

unbrilliant (comparative more unbrilliant, superlative most unbrilliant)

  1. Not brilliant.
    • Walderhurst, who had been much bored by himself and other people in time past, actually found that it gave a fillip to existence to look on at a woman who, having been one of the hardest worked of the genteel labouring classes, was adapting herself to the role of marchioness by the simplest of...1901, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emily Fox-Seton
    • And some are apparently so unbrilliant that they go directly to DVD (which, with films of this genre, is really some kind of achievement)— e.g., Road Trip: Beer Pong, a 2009 movie about which Drinkology would prefer to know nothing.2011, James Waller, Drinkology Beer: A Book About the Brew

Forms of unbrilliant

comparativemore unbrilliant
superlativemost unbrilliant

Origin of unbrilliant

From un- + brilliant.

Words formed from unbrilliant

Questions about unbrilliant

What does unbrilliant mean?
Unbrilliant means not brilliant.
What part of speech is unbrilliant?
Unbrilliant is an adjective.

Words near unbrilliant in the dictionary

  1. unbriefable
  2. unbriefed
  3. unbrigaded
  4. unbright
  5. unbrightened
  6. unbrilliant
  7. unbrilliantly
  8. unbrimmed
  9. unbrimming
  10. unbrined
  11. unbriny

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