BRILLIANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brilliantly mean? 

• BRILLIANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb BRILLIANTLY has 2 senses:

1. with brightness

2. in an extremely intelligent way

  Familiarity information: BRILLIANTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRILLIANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With brightness

Synonyms:

bright; brightly; brilliantly

Context example:

the windows glowed jewel bright

Pertainym:

brilliant (full of light; shining intensely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an extremely intelligent way

Context example:

he solved the problem brilliantly

Pertainym:

brilliant (having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence)

 Context examples 

Mars is an ambitious planet that helps you compete brilliantly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incomprehensible to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You should have seen the dining-room that day—how richly it was decorated, how brilliantly lit up!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When I came in view again the cloud had passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly that I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back of the seat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Everything was very good; we did not spare the wine; and he exerted himself so brilliantly to make the thing pass off well, that there was no pause in our festivity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The low-roofed, oak-panelled room into which he conducted them was brilliantly lit by four scented oil lamps.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When interstellar dust and gas are bombarded with ultraviolet light from hot young stars, the energy causes them to shine brilliantly.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid’s window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas and newborn stars that give these galaxies their nickname also makes it possible for the gas to reach the central regions of the galaxies, feeding the black hole that lurks in each of them and causing it to shine brilliantly.

(Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish, ESO)