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unbrilliant en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + brilliant.

Meanings

  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 processes, and making a very nice figure at it too, in her entirely unbrilliant way. 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

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more unbrilliant Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unbrilliant Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unbrilliantly