Brilliant
Brilliant adjective - Giving off or reflecting much light.
Successful and brilliant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Successful" instead an adjective "Brilliant".
Successful
Successful adjective - Having attained a desired end or state of good fortune.
Brilliant and successful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brilliant" instead an adjective "Successful".
Both words in one sentence
- After winning Super Bowl XXV, the rough, gruff, yet brilliant and successful Bill Parcells retired from football, with his head coaching job going to Ray Handley.
Source: Dork Age / Sports -
In one Grendel story, a highly successful and brilliant lawyer, whose sole moral lapse is having extramarital relations, is forced to become an Amoral Attorney for Grendel's organization.
Source: Amoral Attorney -
He is a brilliant and successful graduate student and later mathematics professor but is a socially clumsy loner with schizophrenia.
Source: Film / A Beautiful Mind
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