Words that rhyme with brilliant

• ambulant 5
  adj 1: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: ambulant, ambulatory]
• opulent 1
  adj 1: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]
• ambivalent 0
  adj 1: uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow; "was ambivalent about having children"
• anticoagulant 0
  n 1: medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood [syn: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication, decoagulant]
• appellant 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: appellate, appellant] n 1: the party who appeals a decision of a lower court [syn: appellant, plaintiff in error]
• assailant 0
  n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter]
• benevolent 0
  adj 1: intending or showing kindness; "a benevolent society" 2: showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor" [syn: charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted] 3: generous in providing aid to others [syn: benevolent, freehearted] 4: generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions" [syn: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic]
• bivalent 0
  adj 1: having a valence of two or having two valences [syn: bivalent, divalent] 2: used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent, univalent]
• coagulant 0
  n 1: an agent that produces coagulation [syn: coagulant, coagulator]
• coolant 0
  n 1: a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another; "he added more coolant to the car's radiator"; "the atomic reactor used a gas coolant"; "lathe operators use an emulsion of oil and water as a coolant for the cutting tool"
• corpulent 0
  adj 1: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]
• covalent 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by covalence; "covalent bond"
• crapulent 0
  adj 1: suffering from excessive eating or drinking; "crapulent sleep"; "a crapulous stomach" [syn: crapulent, crapulous]
• defoliant 0
  n 1: a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off
• divalent 0
  adj 1: having a valence of two or having two valences [syn: bivalent, divalent]
• ebullient 0
  adj 1: joyously unrestrained [syn: ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited]
• emigrant 0
  n 1: someone who leaves one country to settle in another [syn: emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer]
• emollient 0
  adj 1: having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin [syn: demulcent, emollient, salving, softening] n 1: toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin [syn: cream, ointment, emollient]
• entrant 0
  n 1: a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; "a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer" 2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant] 3: someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures" 4: one who enters a competition
• equivalent 0
  adj 1: being essentially equal to something; "it was as good as gold"; "a wish that was equivalent to a command"; "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt" [syn: equivalent, tantamount(p)] n 1: a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc; "send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps" 2: the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen [syn: equivalent, equivalent weight, combining weight, eq]
• esurient 0
  adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [syn: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient] 2: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: avid, devouring(a), esurient, greedy] 3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]
• excellent 0
  adj 1: very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first- class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid]
• feculent 0
  adj 1: foul with waste matter
• flagellant 0
  n 1: a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification 2: a person who whips himself as a religious penance
• flagrant 0
  adj 1: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]
• flatulent 0
  adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal 2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: colicky, flatulent, gassy]
• flocculent 0
  adj 1: having a fluffy character or appearance [syn: flocculent, woolly, wooly]
• fragrant 0
  adj 1: pleasant-smelling [ant: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling]
• fraudulent 0
  adj 1: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent]
• gallant 0
  adj 1: unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers" 2: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing, gallant] 3: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud] 4: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly] n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse] 2: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire, gallant]
• hydrant 0
  n 1: a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask [syn: water faucet, water tap, tap, hydrant] 2: a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks
• immigrant 0
  n 1: a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
• inhalant 0
  adj 1: inhaling or serving for inhalation; "an inhalant pore" n 1: something that is inhaled 2: a medication to be taken by inhaling it [syn: inhalant, inhalation]
• insolent 0
  adj 1: marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flip] 2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
• invariant 0
  adj 1: unaffected by a designated operation or transformation 2: unvarying in nature; "maintained a constant temperature"; "principles of unvarying validity" [syn: changeless, constant, invariant, unvarying] n 1: a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it
• jubilant 0
  adj 1: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant] 2: full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart" [syn: elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant]
• luculent 0
  adj 1: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]
• luxuriant 0
  adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern" [syn: elaborate, luxuriant] 2: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous] 3: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous]
• malevolent 0
  adj 1: wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful" 2: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil]
• migrant 0
  adj 1: habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" [syn: migrant, migratory] n 1: traveler who moves from one region or country to another [syn: migrant, migrator]
• ministrant 0
  adj 1: giving practical help to; "a ministering angel"; "the angels ministrant sang"; "the attending physician" n 1: someone who serves as a minister
• miscreant 0
  n 1: a person without moral scruples [syn: reprobate, miscreant]
• monovalent 0
  adj 1: containing only one kind of antibody [ant: polyvalent] 2: having a valence of 1 [syn: monovalent, univalent] [ant: multivalent, polyvalent]
• multivalent 0
  adj 1: used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis [ant: bivalent, double, univalent] 2: having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher [syn: polyvalent, multivalent] [ant: monovalent, univalent] 3: having many values, meanings, or appeals; "subtle, multivalent allegory" [syn: multivalent, multi-valued]
• nonchalant 0
  adj 1: marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant]
• nutrient 0
  adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive] n 1: any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue [syn: food, nutrient] 2: any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
• parturient 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or giving birth; "parturient pangs"; "the parturient uterus" 2: giving birth; "a parturient heifer"
• petulant 0
  adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy]
• poignant 0
  adj 1: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: affecting, poignant, touching] 2: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"
• polyvalent 0
  adj 1: containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen; "a polyvalent vaccine" [ant: monovalent] 2: having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher [syn: polyvalent, multivalent] [ant: monovalent, univalent]
• postulant 0
  n 1: one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
• prevalent 0
  adj 1: most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn: prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife]
• propellant 0
  adj 1: tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought" [syn: propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive] n 1: any substance that propels [syn: propellant, propellent]
• prurient 0
  adj 1: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious]
• purulent 0
  adj 1: containing pus; "a purulent wound" [syn: purulent, pussy]
• recalcitrant 0
  adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" [syn: fractious, refractory, recalcitrant] 2: marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"
• recreant 0
  adj 1: having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper" [syn: recreant, renegade] 2: lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser [syn: craven, recreant] n 1: an abject coward [syn: poltroon, craven, recreant] 2: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter]
• re-entrant 0
  adj 1: (of angles) pointing inward; "a polygon with re-entrant angles" [syn: re-entrant, reentrant] [ant: salient]
• registrant 0
  n 1: a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)
• repellent 0
  adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent, repellant] 2: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky] 3: incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water" [syn: repellent, resistant] n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water [syn: repellent, repellant] 2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent, repellant] 3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" [syn: repellent, repellant]
• resilient 0
  adj 1: recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like 2: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy]
• salient 0
  adj 1: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" [syn: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking] 2: (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees [ant: re-entrant, reentrant] 3: represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) n 1: (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
• sealant 0
  n 1: a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) [syn: sealant, sealer]
• sibilant 0
  adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) [syn: sibilant, sibilant consonant]
• silent 0
  adj 1: marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" [syn: silent, soundless, still] 2: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent] 3: implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: silent, tacit, understood] 4: not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded" [syn: silent, unsounded] 5: having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle" 6: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent]
• succulent 0
  adj 1: full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves" [syn: lush, succulent] n 1: a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
• suppliant 0
  adj 1: humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" [syn: suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory] n 1: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" [syn: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant, requester]
• talent 0
  n 1: natural abilities or qualities [syn: endowment, gift, talent, natural endowment] 2: a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
• tetravalent 0
  adj 1: haveing a valence of four
• topgallant 0
  n 1: a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast [syn: topgallant, topgallant sail] 2: a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel [syn: topgallant, topgallant mast]
• trivalent 0
  adj 1: having a valence of three
• truculent 0
  adj 1: defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"
• turbulent 0
  adj 1: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent] 2: (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids" [syn: churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent]
• undulant 0
  adj 1: resembling waves in form or outline or motion [syn: undulatory, undulant]
• ungallant 0
  adj 1: offensively discourteous [syn: caddish, unchivalrous, ungallant]
• univalent 0
  adj 1: used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis; "a univalent chromosome" [ant: bivalent, double, multivalent] 2: having a valence of 1 [syn: monovalent, univalent] [ant: multivalent, polyvalent]
• vagrant 0
  adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant] n 1: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond]
• valiant 0
  adj 1: having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier" [syn: valiant, valorous]
• vigilant 0
  adj 1: carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow" [syn: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful]
• violent 0
  adj 1: acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike" [ant: nonviolent] 2: effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death" 3: (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" [syn: violent, wild] 4: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy] 5: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent]
• virulent 0
  adj 1: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: deadly, venomous, virulent] 2: infectious; having the ability to cause disease [ant: avirulent] 3: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic]
• pentavalent 0
  adj 1: having a valence of five
• aperient 0
  adj 1: mildly laxative n 1: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels [syn: purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient]
• impellent 0
  adj 1: forcing forward or onward; impelling; "an impellent power"; "an impellent cause"
• propellent 0
  adj 1: tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought" [syn: propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive] n 1: any substance that propels [syn: propellant, propellent]
• nonviolent 0
  adj 1: abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence [ant: violent] 2: achieved without bloodshed; "an unbloody transfer of power" [syn: nonviolent, unbloody]
• electrovalent 0
• equipollent 0
• esculent 0
• heptavalent 0
• libellant 0
• procreant 0
• remonstrant 0
• somnambulant 0
• tervalent 0
• hexavalent 0
• octavalent 0
• quadrivalent 0
• septivalent 0
• sexivalent 0

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