genius vs brilliant :

genius or brilliant

In standard English “genius” is a noun, but not an adjective. In slang, people often say things like “Telling Mom your English teacher is requiring the class to get HBO was genius!” The standard way to say this is “was brilliant.”

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Definitions
  genius
  • n  someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
    Mozart was a child genius
  • n  unusual mental ability
  • n  someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
  • n  exceptional creative ability
  • n  a natural talent
    he has a genius for interior decorating
  brilliant
  • s  of surpassing excellence
    a brilliant performance
  • s  having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence
    a brilliant mind
    a brilliant solution to the problem
  • s  characterized by grandeur
    the brilliant court life at Versailles
  • s  having striking color
    brilliant tapestries
  • s  full of light; shining intensely
    a brilliant star
    brilliant chandeliers
  • s  clear and sharp and ringing
    the brilliant sound of the trumpets
News & Articles
  genius
  • GENIUS environmental competition June 17-20 to global finalists
    The SUNY Oswego GENIUS Olympiad finals open Monday, June 17, welcoming more than 400 competitors and their mentors from around the world, including Kayla Vidal and Bilgenur Sirin of the Syracuse Academy of Science. "We are very excited for the Oswego competition," said the charter school juniors, who studied the effects on Lake Ontario water quality of fireworks shows at events such as ...
    June 12, 2013 - Oswego County Today
  • Justin Bieber Has a Genius Idea for His Next Tattoo
    Getty Images Justin Bieber has a whole bunch of tattoos now — a tiger head, owl, crown, and knight, for starters — and his next idea might just blow your mind. Ready for this? He tweeted his genius idea Wednesday: "Random thought- I should get a tattoo of a smiley face on my foot and call it happy feet. Haha" While that's mildly amusing, we'd like to point out that he'd have to get a smiley face ...
    June 12, 2013 - Zimbio
  • GENIUS environmental competition June 17-20 to global finalists
    The SUNY Oswego GENIUS Olympiad finals open Monday, June 17, welcoming more than 400 competitors and their mentors from around the world, including Kayla Vidal and Bilgenur Sirin of the Syracuse Academy of Science. "We are very excited for the Oswego competition," said the charter school juniors, who studied the effects on Lake Ontario water quality of fireworks shows at events such as ...
    June 12, 2013 - Oswego County Today
  brilliant
  • My Brilliant Divorce , Starring Mary Testa, Plays Asolo Rep's Mertz Theatre Beginning June 23
    Mary Testa stars in My Brilliant Divorce, a one-woman play by Geraldine Anron, at the Asolo Rep's Mertz Theatre.
    June 23, 2013 - Playbill
  • 4 Big Data Trends That Change Everything
    Over the past few weeks I?ve heard many recipes for what will drive business success and yet firms large and small continue to struggle with how to jumpstart growth. Brilliant speakers at the Brandworks Conference (run by Lindsey, Stone and Briggs) in May and at the Cloud Computing and Big Data Expo and the World Innovation Forum (WIFNY) both in New York last week provided insights that must ...
    June 22, 2013 - Forbes
  • Diamond Jubilee Stakes 2013 Payouts: Full Breakdown of Earnings for Each Horse
    Lethal Force ran a brilliant race on Saturday at Ascot Racecourse in England, winning the 2013 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, via BBC Sport : 2011 Jubilee Stakes winner Society Rock was the odds-on favorite coming in at 4-1, but he wasn't able to win for a second time, coming up short for the second straight year after finishing second behind Lethal Force. Krypton Factor placed in third, overcoming ...
    June 22, 2013 - Bleacher Report